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Legitimate-Tea5561 t1_j9p6g8m wrote

Reply to comment by thisisausername190 in This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk | Pollution by Underwood4EverHoC

>In an email Chevron spokes person Ross Allen wrote: “It is incorrect to say there is a one-in-four cancer risk from smoke-stack emissions. I urge you avoid suggesting otherwise.” Asked to clarify what exactly was wrong, Allen wrote that Chevron disagrees with ProPublica and the Guardian’s “characterization of language in the EPA consent order”. That document, signed by a Chevron manager at its refinery in Pascagoula, quantified the lifetime cancer risk from the inhalation of smoke-stack air as 2.5 cancers in 10 people, which can also be stated as one in four.

Urges us to avoid suggesting the truth.

>In a subsequent phone call, Allen said: “We do take care of our communities, our workers, and the environment. Generally, this is job one for Chevron.”

They take care of profiting off the communities, and spreading the cost of their pollution to every one else.

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Portalrules123 t1_j9ruwig wrote

If that was their job one they literally wouldn’t be able to exist running as a massive conglomeration, because the economic system they are intrenched in is based purely on cold hard profit. So you already can tell this is a lie.

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