The EPA is siding with its 2016 assessment of cancer risks from ethylene oxide used to set emissions limits for certain chemical plants, rejecting industry’s alternative approach as insufficient to protect public health.
The agency’s proposed rule, announced Thursday, focuses narrowly on how cancer risks were calculated for revisions in 2020 of standards for hazardous air pollutants emitted by what EPA calls “miscellaneous” organic chemical manufacturing facilities. The proposal is slated to be published in the Federal Register on Friday.
Most in the chemical industry won’t be be affected by the proposal, the EPA said, partly because fewer than ...
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