No odor. No color. You cannot taste ethylene oxide drifting from the sterilization facility two blocks from the school. What accumulates, over years, is leukemia. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Breast cancer. The body keeps the score the neighborhood never got to see. The EPA classified EtO as a human carcinogen in 2016. Biden's rules required 90% emission cuts and community monitoring. This March, the EPA proposed gutting those rules permanently. 86 registered facilities. Forty-one already received exemptions. Most in low-income zip codes. The gas is the policy is the body count.

https://twp.ai/4hrM5c

#ethyleneoxide #EPA #cancer #environmentaljustice #publichealth #airquality #toxicemissions #communityhealth #eparollback #environment #environmentalracism

Ethylene oxide. No odor. No color. You cannot taste it drifting from the sterilization plant two blocks from the school. What accumulates over years is leukemia. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The EPA classified it carcinogenic in 2016. Now they want to gut the rules. Cancer in someone else's zip code — already written off as a line item.

https://twp.ai/4hrM5W

#ethyleneoxide #EPA #cancer #environmentaljustice #publichealth #airquality #toxicemissions #communityhealth #eparollback #environment

What Survives the Morning: $4 Gas, Cancer Air, and the Trans Politician JK Rowling Got Elected

What survives soaring gas prices, toxic air, and a trans politician JK Rowling helped elect? Wendy's unflinching analysis of economy, climate, and queer survival in crisis times.

Wendy The Druid