Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. The study looked at cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2019 and found “significantly greater than expected” cases of lymphocytic leukemia and breast cancer.
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