Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
As with too many other air pollutants, people of color face a disproportionate impact from sterilizers that pose greater cancer risks, co-located facilities, and those violating the Clean Air Act. To be clear: EPA is not proposing that these facilities cease operations or suddenly banning the use of EtO.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. 451962/2016 (N.Y. Pritzker , Nos.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. In 2016, it concluded that the gas is 60 times more toxic than its previous estimate. However, the EPA does caution that children may be more susceptible.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2023
These new standards rely on the findings of a 2016 risk assessment by EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, which determined that long-term exposure to EtO can increase your risk of developing cancer. In fact, the 2016 IRIS risk assessment found that EtO was up to 60 times more toxic than previously understood.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 1, 2023
EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. Exposure to ethylene oxide by breathing it in the air is associated with cancers of white blood cells, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as breast cancers.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2024
percent of the MY 2016 fleet and were actually only 2 percent. Fourth, unlike the Clean Power Plan, this regulation is not just about greenhouse gases and climate change. It also applies to conventional air pollutants – the same pollutants that EPA has regulated since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 6, 2021
When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. The rule required states to submit initial compliance plans in 2016, with final implementation plans in 2018. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals.
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