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Utopia Talk / Politics / EPA: Formaldehyde ain't so bad
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murder
rank | Tue Dec 16 03:26:00 Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. The chemical industry finally got its wish. Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. Last week, in a highly unusual move, the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach in announcing that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. Working on that effort were two of those former industry insiders, who are now top EPA officials. The proposed revisions to the assessment, released Wednesday, nearly double the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale compared with the version that was finalized in the last weeks of the Biden administration. Even that older assessment significantly underestimated the dangers posed by formaldehyde, a ProPublica investigation published last year found. Read the rest here: https://ww...a-formaldehyde-risk-assessment |
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Pillz
rank | Tue Dec 16 03:30:52 Considering that U.S. grocery stores literally don't sell anything that qualifies as food, I don't know why you're complaining about this. Give it a couple more years and you'll stop watering crops with water. I'm not saying you'll use Gatorade, but you'll probably stop using water. Just give it a few more years. |
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