A 2018 EPA report found elevated cancer risks in three census tracts in metro Atlanta near medical sterilizing plants that emit ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas -- but residents weren't notified. Now they demand to know why.
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News.It was the first question to state and federal environmental regulators addressing hundreds of Metro Atlanta residents Monday night about the dangers of ethylene oxide – a-causing gas being released from a Sterigenics plant northwest of the city that sterilizes medical supplies.
Ken Mitchell, chief of air toxics for Region 4 of the EPA, expressed second thoughts about how his agency handled the data on the elevated cancer risk last year. The agency decided not to send out a press release last August when the results of the National Air Toxics Assessment were posted. “I hear you. I hear you. You feel like we should have communicated with you long before this. I hear you,” she said.
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