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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have proposed to partially roll back the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards issued in 2012.[i] The proposal, called the Safe Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule, is partly justified on the basis that it will reduce traffic fatalities by about 1,000 deaths per year or about 12,000 deaths in total by model year 2029.

Numerous scientific bodies around the world, both public and private, attempt to assess the cancer-causing potential of various industrial chemicals. Ideally, those research programs should inform everyone, from policy makers to manufacturers to consumers, enabling people to make better decisions to minimize risks. However, too often classification programs rely on outdated and faulty methodologies and are influenced by political considerations that lead to inappropriate cancer classifications. Their faulty conclusions can create serious problems, including bans on useful products, market deselection of such products, and public confusion about cancer risks. Unfortunately, such problems are becoming commonplace.