{"id":860,"date":"2026-05-12T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:41:26","slug":"trumps-rollback-of-toxic-gas-rules-limits-epas-authority-to-protect-public-health-analysis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA\u2019s authority to protect public health, analysis says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/air-pollution\">pollution<\/a> more broadly aims to limit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/epa\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>\u2019s authority to strengthen public health protections around hazardous emissions and could result in more of the toxin being released into the air.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research has found EtO is about 60 times more carcinogenic than thought when the last regulations were developed in 2006. In 2024, the Biden EPA passed a rule that strengthened the regulations to reflect the updated science, and required the nation\u2019s EtO emitters to collectively cut their emissions by about 90%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/trump-rollback-eto-pollution-epa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds A new Trump administration plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) pollution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}