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Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA’s ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound

A federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated with highly toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” found to leach at alarming levels into food, cosmetics, household cleaners, pesticides and other products across the economy.

Houston-based Inhance manufactures an estimated 200m containers annually with a process that creates, among other chemicals, PFOA, a toxic PFAS compound. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December prohibited Inhance from using the manufacturing process.

But the conservative fifth circuit court of appeals court overturned the ban. The judges did not deny the containers’ health risks, but said the EPA could not regulate the buckets under the statute it used.

The rule requires companies to alert the EPA if a new industrial process creates hazardous chemicals. Inhance has produced the containers for decades and argued that its process is not new, so it is not subject to the regulations. The EPA argued that it only became aware that Inhance’s process created PFOA in 2020, so it could be regulated as a new use, but the court disagreed.

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[-] babypigeon@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Didn't we use asbestos for decades too? JFC GOP.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago

It has been less than four years since we had a president that thinks asbestos is 100% safe and the push to remove it was a conspiracy by the mafia to get the construction contracts. We've conclusively known that it is toxic for over 100 years and there is some evidence that we have known for a couple thousand years.

[-] dnu@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 7 months ago

They want to bring asbestos back too. So...yknow

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but the US has still been using asbestos. Just this month they finally banned chrysotile asbestos which is still in use.

[-] babypigeon@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I had no.idea. Wtf is wrong with us?

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