According to reporting from the Chicago Tribune, half a million people across the U.S. live in census tracts the EPA has identified as having higher than acceptable risks for cancer caused by ethylene oxide -- but officials did little to inform residents.
July 25, 2019 -- Twilight was falling, but the heat would not let up.
On Wednesday, the society waived the $75 rental fee so the community could gather to hear a very different kind of evangelist: Margie Donnell, a petite blond real estate attorney and mom from suburban Chicago, who, with her neighbors, has been fighting a Sterigenics plant where she lives. For more than 2 hours, they leaned forward as they sat in heat that approached 90 degrees, red-faced and rapt. Some took notes in the margins of news stories they’d printed from their computers.
“First let me say that Neringa and I will stay here as late as you all need us to. Until the very last person has their question answered, we will not leave,” she said.“I’m a volunteer community member, part of this grassroots organization,” she said. She said she happened to be in Atlanta to visit her company’s corporate headquarters when the news of the Smyrna and Covington pollution broke.Her message was blunt: Be loud. Be persistent. Get the air tested.
“Nobody here,” she said. “Nobody in Willowbrook. Nobody in Chicago, nobody in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Nobody in New Orleans. Nobody in Michigan. These are all towns that are going through the same thing. We were all surprised just as you all are sitting here right now. My bubble was burst that day.”, half a million people live in census tracts the EPA has identified as having higher than acceptable risks for cancer caused by ethylene oxide.
In Covington, ethylene oxide concentrations around the BD plant are 17 to 97 times higher than the state’s AAC. In the Smyrna area, they are 27 to 61 times higher in neighborhoods around the Sterigenics plant.
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