A group of environmental attorneys have filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of a Pascagoula community group for allowing Chevron to use pyrolysis oil, or pyoil.
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“EPA’s decision to let Chevron poison the community in Pascagoula with chemicals posing astronomical cancer risks makes a mockery of the agency’s stated commitments to environmental justice,” Earthjustice attorney Katherine O’Brien said. “EPA needs to follow the law and protect people at the fenceline, not greenwash for Chevron by passing off the company’s plastic-waste fuel as a solution to the climate crisis.
Chevron responded: “The claim is based on EPA’s initial risk screening, which was taken out of context and doesn’t reflect how it would actually be done given the processes and safeguards we use every day at the refinery to ensure we do everything safely or not at all. The EPA’s initial screening is very conservative and doesn’t represent actual risk to our community or employees as if it were actually run in the refinery.
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