WendyMay 12
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
Show threadwendythedruidMay 12

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
The USA PotatoAug 31, 2025

Trump EPA Rollbacks Put Texas Communities at Risk

Texas residents fear health risks as Trump EPA delays tougher mercury and chemical emission rules.

https://murica.website/2025/08/trump-epa-rollbacks-put-texas-communities-at-risk/

Trump EPA Rollbacks Put Texas Communities at Risk – The USA Potato

DoomsdaysCWAug 25, 2023

NASA Maps Reveal #Toxic #Emissions Over Major #US Cities

by Adam Kovac, August 24, 2023

"NASA’s new space-based air pollution monitoring system has sent back its first maps, showing #CarTraffic brings down air quality in several #MajorCities.

"The six maps were made from data from the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (#TEMPO), which launched in April. In scans taken over a six-hour period on August 2, high concentrations of #NitrogenDioxide, a toxic #pollutant tied to car and #smokestack emissions, can be seen hovering over #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #LasVegas and #WashingtonDC.

"While the location of #AirPollution shown in the maps isn’t surprising, the data is only the tip of the iceberg for TEMPO, the first space-based instrument designed to continuously monitor air quality over #NorthAmerica. TEMPO principal investigator Kelly Chance said there are currently 50 scientific studies under way that will make use of data generated by the program. The program will truly get underway in October when the instrument will begin transmitting hourly daytime scans."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/nasa-maps-reveal-toxic-emissions-over-major-us-cities/ar-AA1fJw0N?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=f894eb50594546ae9f00a7401608cf2c&ei=5

#Pollution #ToxicEmissions

MSN

Dr. Laurel StandleyJan 31, 2023
Having just switched from a gas to an induction stove, I wrote a blog about the health issues of gas emissions and what you can do to reduce exposure if you can't afford to switch.
#GasStoves #ToxicEmissions
https://laureljstandley.com/2023/01/31/why-gas-stoves-are-in-hot-water/
Why Gas Stoves are in “Hot” Water

Dr. Laurel Standley