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.

    • SamboT@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I think they don't really know because the composition is based on whatever trash is recycled

    • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      It sounds like the EPA redacted their names and exact makeup in the consent order the reporters were able to obtain.