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The chemical industry finally got its wish.

Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.

Last week, in a highly unusual move, the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach in announcing that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. Working on that effort were two of those former industry insiders, who are now top EPA officials.

The proposed revisions to the assessment, released Wednesday, nearly double the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale compared with the version that was finalized in the last weeks of the Biden administration. Even that older assessment significantly underestimated the dangers posed by formaldehyde, a ProPublica investigation published last year found.

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[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

When do we start putting lead back in gas?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Make

Asbestos

Great

Again

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Back in gas? We never fully took it out. 100 low-lead is still a standard fuel in aviation. It was only recently that the FAA finally even allowed a lead-free alternative

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's raining lead, Hallelujah!

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Remember how Trump wants everything made in the US?

Your products just got a LOT more dangerous. He's rolled back pesticides and chemicals in food too. The entire country is unsafe.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 10 points 3 months ago

Very helpful when drugging young kids

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

And they shut down NIOSH, the guys who test masks to prevent inhalation of VOCs like formaldehyde.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And all of this again shows that the US loves to poison all of its citizens, as long as a tiny few of them get really rich from it.

The US is a shit hole country and I don't understand why anyone wants to live there. I considered moving there years ago and to this day I can't understand what I was thinking

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, there’s some nice beaches. Plus [insert niche interest] is pretty accessible here.

The real issue is that the evil Mercer-Cambridge-Analytica-Nazi-Babycrushing machine is coming to all countries. You’ll have your own trump and Brexit before long if you don’t already. Look at Alberta for instance.

The public media required to fight that shit is never going to happen because it’s all owned by billionaires.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

1984 here we come

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 months ago

“toxic sludge is good for you”

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Poison the water, air, and land all for the profits of a few. This is what conservatives think is best.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'm scared to buy anything that is made in America under the trump leadership. Everything is unsafe to eat and use. The American public is doomed.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Joke’s on them, I’m still huffing Freon.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Under Trump the American human body has doubled its resistance against Formaldehyde!