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.

  • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
    5•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?