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EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (www.propublica.org)

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The EPA decided its scientists were overstating the risks and gave Chevron the go-ahead to make the new boat fuel ingredient at its refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Poor Mississippi.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I read the original, redacted, EPA document (well, skimmed it... there were 200 pages). There were no dates on that document. No dates were mentioned in the propublica article.

Who was the EPA director at the time? Wheeler?