AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce EPA being sued over granting a permit to Chevron to produce fuel from plastic waste. The rate of cancer would increase dramatically in any community exposed to the refinery process. EPA continues to recommend processes and chemicals that are Fossil Fuel based or contain PFAS, a known toxin that is unnecessarily added to clothing and fabric. When will the EPA stop harming citizens and ban products and processes containing toxins? Lawsuits and protests reverse ingrained policy decisions.

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www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/11/epa-plastic-based-fuel-cancer-risk-approval-questions

The new scrutiny is in response to an earlier investigation by ProPublica and the Guardian that revealed the EPA approved the new chemicals even though its own scientists calculated that pollution from production of one of the plastic-based fuels was so toxic that one in four people exposed to it over their lifetime would be expected to develop cancer. That risk is 250,000 times greater than the level usually considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals, and it’s higher than the lifetime risk of cancer for current smokers.

On Friday, a community organization sued the EPA in the US court of appeals in Washington DC, over the agency’s decision to allow a Chevron refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to produce the fuels derived from plastic waste, including the one that could subject people nearby to a one-in-four lifetime cancer risk. Cherokee Concerned Citizens, which represents residents in a housing subdivision close to that refinery, is asking the court to invalidate the EPA’s approval of the new chemicals.

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