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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . The risk assessments were done by EPA itself. This means that one person in a group of 10,000 living near the plant for a lifetime would be expected to get cancer from the plant's air emissions. In other words, the risk from each of these 167 plants is at least 100 times greater than the risk that Congressman Waxman considers acceptable. Mr. Reilly said EPA conducted the risk assessments without considering local wind patterns, topography and other important details that could change how a plant's emissions affect a nearby neighborhood.