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The agency expects the rule to cut more than 6,200 tons of toxic emissions each year from more than 200 plants

A report by Human Rights Watch sheds new light on the experiences of residents living near the region’s sprawling petrochemical complexes

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a series of major reforms this past week to slash toxic air pollution at chemical plants and facilities that sterilize medical equipment, nearly 18 months

The EPA has proposed tougher air pollution rules for chemical plants and other industrial facilities after ProPublica found an estimated 74 million Americans near those sites faced an elevated risk of cancer.

Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an "unreasonable risk" to the environment or human health, including a significant cancer risk.

The risk is 250,000 times greater than the level considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals.

A “climate friendly” federal program approved a plastic-based fuel that could cause cancer in 25% of people exposed.

Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels

Rhonda Fratzke’s oncologist asked if she had ever worked with vinyl chloride, a potent carcinogen. She had not, but she lived near a Westlake Chemical plant that was just fined a million dollars for polluting the air with the dangerous chemical.

Calvert City, Kentucky, has long had what people in other toxic hot spots have been begging for: monitors to prove they’re being exposed to toxic industrial air pollution. Regulators have years of evidence, but the poison in the air is only growing.