The EPA has finalized stronger rules on the cancer-causing emission ethylene oxide.

Millions of people live in communities bordering facilities that emit massive amounts of toxic air pollution

Fenceline communities are exposed to these carcinogens every day

Community groups call for fenceline monitoring, removal of unlawful pollution loopholes  

Curbing ethylene oxide emissions is necessary to stop cancer hot spots in Louisiana and Texas

Emma Cheuse, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office: “We recognize that what was acceptable [risk tolerance levels] then is not OK now.”

Emma Cheuse, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: “It’s hard to have any confidence with industry changes to its own estimated emission numbers.”

Emma Cheuse, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: “The science shows that communities are facing unacceptable threats of cancer and other diseases from these chemical plants’ pollution. The critical question for EPA to answer in the process is what will it do to finally and truly help communities still facing this injustice?”

Eleven community, scientist, environmental, and environmental justice groups, represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency over a weak national emission rule for hundreds of chemical facilities whose pollution is linked to cancer. The Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing (MON) rule regulates toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants across the country. These plants emit over…

Action needed now to stop St. John residents from choking on toxic air including chloroprene

Emma Cheuse, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Office, Earthjustice: “It’s pretty shocking that the EPA has done nothing for people exposed to these chemical plants more than two years after that announcement of that important finding.”

Eleven community, scientist, environmental, and environmental justice groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a weak national emission rule for hundreds of chemical facilities whose pollution is linked to cancer. The Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing, or MON rule, regulates toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants across the country. These plants emit over 7,400 tons a year of dangerous air pollutants, including at least 2,000 pounds of ethylene oxide, an aggressive carcinogen.

Eleven community, scientist, environmental, and environmental justice groups represented by Earthjustice sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a weak national emission rule for hundreds of chemical facilities whose pollution is linked to cancer. There groups also filed a petition for reconsideration with the EPA.

EPA’s rule for organic chemical facilities allows toxic air pollution at levels dangerous for public health

EPA would be required to boost air quality monitoring

Request for public hearing in Louisiana communities with extreme cancer risk from hazardous air pollutants, such as ethylene oxide, emitted by MON sources.

EPA held hearing to hear from communities living near chemical facilities linked to cancer