An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.

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.

  • @darmabum@lemm.ee
    60•1 year ago

    They are trying to save money by adding a solvent mixture refined from recycled plastic. But since the feedstock contains a wide variety of junk (called “UVCB substances" or “Substances of Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or Biological materials”) the resulting additive is a very complex mixture, including many untested and/or potentially toxic chemicals.

    • Che Banana
      31•1 year ago

      Black water, the sequel.

      The actor playing the lead hasn’t even been born yet.

      • @mycatiskai
        9•1 year ago

        His mother will be from Mississippi and he will be born with two hearts, and be stillborn.

        His mother will be charged with premurder.

        • Che Banana
          2•1 year ago

          it will be a kangaroo court, and a cautionary tale told to generations about the woman with no car who tried to sully the oil lords