State Regulators Fine Arkansas Bromine Plant for Unreported Clean Air Act Violations

State regulators fine Arkansas bromine plant for unreported Clean Air Act violations

The Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality is fining one of South Arkansas’ bromine producers for Clean Air Act violations after a company it hired didn’t actually complete reported leak detection inspections for 10 months. Lanxess, formerly Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, has agreed to pay the division $27,000 in civil penalties, according to a consent administrative order posted online. A DEQ inspection last year of the company’s South a…

Arkansas bromine plant fined for Clean Air Act violations

Site of the Lanxess South Plant on 324 Southfield Cutoff in El Dorado. (John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate 02/28/2023)The Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality is fining one of South Arkansas’ bromine producers for Clean Air Act violations after a company it hired didn’t actually complete reported leak detection inspections for 10 months. Lanxess, formerly Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, has agreed to pay the division $27,000 in civil penalties…