#1. CANCER
Perdue:
Claims the over 200 tons of toxic waste hexane it's asking Pennsylvania permission to forever dump each year into Susquehanna Valley air is not a carcinogen.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
Claims the over 200 tons of toxic waste hexane it's asking Pennsylvania permission to forever dump each year into Susquehanna Valley air is not a carcinogen.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
Finds hexane isn't classifiable as to human carcinogenicity, based on a lack of data concerning carcinogenicity in humans and animals.
In July 2014:
The jury in the case Cynthia Robinson v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company awarded the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer more than $16 million in compensatory damages and more than $23 billion in punitive damages. The tobacco company was found negligent in informing Robinson's husband that smoking causes lung cancer.
Thanks, Ray. So what you're saying is that hexane is not a threat.
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To the author of the first comment above: This isn’t about anyone named Wallace. Aren’t you concerned that Perdue’s tobacco-industry-defending, rent-a-scientist named Elizabeth Anderson tells you that -- contrary to the U.S. EPA -- dumping hundreds of tons of a waste, nerve-damaging neurotoxin nonstop into the air you breathe is OK? Like Perdue, don’t you care that puts unborn babies, children, and the elderly at special risk? See the Safety Data Sheet for hexane here:
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Bottom Line-Hexane wasn't meant to be in the air and anything that wasn't meant to be inhaled by humans will have some effect on human health.
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