The Trump EPA — staffed with former chemical industry insiders — has proposed nearly doubling the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale. Nice, former lobbyists will determine how much carcinogen you should breathe.

ProPublica reports that the agency is revising a health assessment finalized in the final weeks of the Biden administration. Working on that revision are two former industry insiders who are now top EPA officials. The result? A dramatically higher threshold for what's "acceptable" exposure to a chemical that causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant.

Even the Biden-era assessment significantly underestimated the dangers, according to ProPublica's investigation. Their analysis of EPA data found that in every census block in the country, the lifetime cance

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