This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk
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Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a climate-friendly initiative to boost alternatives to petroleum. But, according to agency records obtained by ProPublica and the Guardian, the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, one out of four people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer.
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an…
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk
Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a climate-friendly initiative to boost alternatives to petroleum. But, according to agency records obtained by ProPublica and the Guardian, the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, one out of four people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer.