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More than 200 US chemical plants must reduce toxic emissions under new EPA rule - after Louisiana town becomes 'cancer cluster' from rubber facility polluting air for decades
2024-04-09
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The rule comes after years of cancer in local communities near chemical plants

  • Local communities have begged the government for years to restrict chemicals

  • The rule still will not eliminate the cancer-causing chemicals from being emitted

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that plants will need to cut emissions of ethylene oxide (EtO), chloroprene and other toxins by 80 percent.

Chemical plants affected by the rule are located in 29 different states, most of them in Ohio, Louisiana, and Texas, and include those that produce car antifreeze and the synthetic rubber neoprene, as well as petroleum refineries.

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