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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause Cancer

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EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause Cancer

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The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptable.

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I bet they were hoping it would take 20 years to find out the bad stuff.
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  20 years for the public to find out

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