This "Climate-friendly" Fuel Comes with An Astronomical Cancer Risk

26 Feb 2023 | Abstracted from Grist

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 human health or the environment.

EPA "records obtained by ProPublica and the Guardian, the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, 1 out of 4 people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer."

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