Bill Would Mandate EPA Require Toxic Emissions Monitoring (2)

A Democrat bill being introduced Wednesday would give the EPA up to four months to require monitoring of ethylene oxide and other cancer-causing toxic air pollutants at the fencelines of chemical manufacturing plants.

The Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020, sponsored by Democrats Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (Del.), would require the Environmental Protection Agency to take immediate action to monitor toxic air pollutants at facilities they say are “contributing to high local cancer rates and other health threats from dangerous pollutants.”

The legislation seeks to ensure that chemical, petrochemical, and other sources of fugitive ...