Rick Bady said in an e-mail to various regulators. And this is what the media reported. At the town meeting, EPA officials used a computer-generated slide show to explain the study. The slides also showed that noncancer risks from many air pollutants were above levels EPA considers acceptable. The slides also showed that the study had linked the unacceptable risks from some of these pollutants to the Ashland refinery.
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Anderson-Carnahan said that the local media took some comments from her presentation out of context. She said that the comparison to pollution in other areas was based in part on another EPA study called the Cumulative Exposure Project. In that study, EPA estimated how air pollution increased the risk of people across the country of getting cancer or other illnesses. Nationwide, the average increased cancer risk from air pollution was 250 in 1 million, according to the study. In West Virginia, the average increased cancer risk was 170 in 1 million, the study found.