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🫘 Did you need that organ? The Trump administration is reconsidering a Biden-era environmental rule cracking down on a widely-banned synthetic chemical linked to deadly liver and kidney damage. The chemical industry and its lobbying groups criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2024 decision limiting the uses of carbon tetrachloride and expanding workplace safety measures for the toxin — once commonly used in fire retardant — as “unnecessarily burdensome.”
