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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.
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