The average amount of ortho-toluidine in the air at the plant is even higher: 11.3 parts per billion, according to testing completed by Goodyear in 2019.

DuPont declined to comment, noting in an email that ortho-toluidine was produced by "E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., not DuPont de Nemours," as the company now calls itself after relaunching in 2019.

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If the DEC accepts Goodyear's plan, the company could take interim steps to curb the amount of ortho-toluidine it emits as soon as this spring, with permanent measures to be installed by late 2026.

Ortho-toluidine is a known human carcinogen that was linked to bladder cancer in animal experiments as far back as the 1950s. DPA is a possible carcinogen that may damage the bladder, kidneys and ...

As it is, ortho-toluidine pollution is already blamed for occupational cancer inside the Goodyear plant. At least 78 workers have been diagnosed with bladder cancer since the 1980s.

What's happening? For years, Goodyear has failed to control emissions of ortho-toluidine, a bladder carcinogen, and diphenylamine, another possible carcinogen known as DPA, per the report ...

Nailax is made using a chemical called ortho-toluidine, or OT, for short. When making Nailax, a chemical called diphenylamine, or DPA, is created in the process. OT is a known carcinogen.

Ortho-toluidine is no longer produced in the United States, but at least 1 million lbs. (450,000 kilograms) of the substance is imported into the country each year, according to HHS.

Before his shift at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., in May 2021, a worker peed in a cup. Before he clocked out, he did it again. Goodyear shipped both specimens to a lab to ...

The U.S. agency that's supposed to protect workers' health has all but given up on setting limits on a dangerous chemical released in tire manufacturing. Meanwhile, workers are dying.