It's Thursday, March 21st, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the JIST, I'm Mike Pesca, and I bring you Gas News. Today in gas news for the first time ever,

a man was charged with smuggling gas.

A 58-year-old San Diego is charged with bringing a coolant in from Mexico to sell on Facebook. is Attorney for the Southern District of California. This is the first time that the Department of Justice is prosecuting someone for

illegally importing greenhouse gases, and it will not be the last.

We are using every means possible to protect our planet from the harm caused by toxic pollutants, including bringing criminal charges.

The charges of trading in illicit hydrofluorocarbons, which are still used in old refrigerators and still

legally manufactured in America, chargers carry maximum sentences of up to 20 years.

It'll be plenty of time in federal lockup

for the defendant to cool his heels,

this time hopefully not in violation

of the Kogali Amendment of the Montreal Protocol.

Now for more gas. Let me read to you from the FDA's page for sterilization for

medical devices. Medical devices are sterilized in a variety of ways. I know you're hooked

already. Including using moist heat, parentheses steam,

dry heat, no parentheses necessary, radiation, ethylene oxide gas, vaporized

hydrogen peroxide and other sterilization methods. oxygen which some call steam, but I will forever now call moist heat.

The EPA last week announced limits on ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize most of the

medical equipment in the United States, but exposure to ethylene

oxide causes higher rates of cancer than you'd normally see in the baseline population.

I suppose cancer can be treated with surgery, but in the baseline population.

I suppose cancer can be treated with surgery,

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