Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health
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#2From what I can tell they aren't biofuels at all. They're just approved under a biofuels approval program.
Re: Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health
#3From what I can tell they aren't biofuels at all. They're just approved under a biofuels approval program.
Thanks; I've edited the title to correct this. (s/biofuels/fuels/)
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#4> according to agency 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
> That risk is 250,000 times greater than the level usually considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals.
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#5From what I can tell they aren't biofuels at all. They're just approved under a biofuels approval program.
Thanks; I've edited the title to correct this. (s/biofuels/fuels/)
It says biofuels are not biofuels in the first paragraph.
Thank god someone pointed out your title error else it would have looked like biofuels, like renewable sources, were a danger to human health.
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#6From what I can tell they aren't biofuels at all. They're just approved under a biofuels approval program.
This confusion is part of the problem. I've been watching this space a bit, and it tends to be that all types of energy from waste schemes are sometimes advertised as "bioenergy" or "like bioenergy" or "renewable".
To actually evaluate these, one relevant factor is what waste we are talking about. If the source is plastics then of course the more accurate term would be "fossil fuels", because that's what plastics is usually made from.
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#7EPA doing it's thing
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#8> In a subsequent phone call, Allen said: “We do take care of our communities, our workers and the environment generally. This is job one for Chevron.”
The only possible way this can be true is if Chevron pays everyone in the effected area $100,000 so they can move out.
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#9What's the chemical? I don't think I saw it named. How likely is the risk assessment true?
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#10Thank goodness that some of these projects coincidentally got funded via something that could be tied to environmentalism, or it would just be business as usual, and no one would care.
Now there's at least some small chance that the "see, green stuff kills you too" response may cause enough fuss for the US to do what most other developed nations would do as a matter of course in terms of protecting their citizens from pollution.