"A new Trump administration plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) pollution more broadly aims to limit the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to strengthen public health protections around hazardous emissions and could result in more of the toxin being released into the air. Recent research has found EtO is about 60 times more carcinogenic than thought when the last regulations were developed in 2006."
"In 2024, the Biden EPA passed a rule that strengthened the regulations to reflect the updated science, and required the nation's EtO emitters to collectively cut their emissions by about 90%. A new Harvard analysis details the administration's case, which would limit the EPA's ability to strengthen regulations when it determines hazardous air pollutants are more dangerous than previously thought."
"If the Trump EPA is successful in the legal fight, the 2024 regulations would be rescinded, resulting in nearly 8 tons of the carcinogenic gas continuing to be released in largely low-income neighborhoods. It would also permanently make it more difficult for the EPA to later protect people from toxic air pollutants."
"Chemicals are generally approved with little review of industry claims that their substances are safe, and it can take independent science decades to learn the true risk, as has happened with EtO. It would also lik"
A new Trump administration plan would rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide pollution and limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to strengthen public health protections. Research found ethylene oxide is about 60 times more carcinogenic than previously thought when earlier regulations were developed in 2006. In 2024, the Biden EPA strengthened rules based on updated science and required emitters to cut emissions by about 90%. A Harvard analysis supports the administration’s legal position to restrict EPA’s ability to tighten regulations when hazardous air pollutants are found more dangerous. If successful, the 2024 rules could be removed, allowing nearly 8 tons of carcinogenic gas to continue entering largely low-income neighborhoods and making future protections harder to implement.
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