EPA Approved Fuel Ingredient Nearly Guaranteed to Cause Cancer Over a Lifetime

The substance has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable.

The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the agency’s own risk formula determined was so hazardous, everyone exposed to the substance continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer. Current and former EPA scientists said that threat level is unheard of. It is a million times higher than what the agency usually considers…

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