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Phoenix Investors, the company that owns the old Electrolux building in Southwest Memphis, confirmed that will be the official location of Elon Musk’s new artificial intelligence company.

This marks a long-time win for residents fighting to get rid of Sterilization Services of Tennessee in their neighborhood.

People across the nation claim cancer-causing emissions from local sterilizing plants are making them sick. It’s an example of environmental racism, say residents of one predominantly Black area in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, where life expectancy is much shorter than county and state averages.

For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern side of town.

The EPA has found that cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide (EtO) is used in 88 facilities across the country to sterilize medical equipment like ventilators used in thousands of hospitals.

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A recently announced rule from the EPA would reduce an estimated 90% of ethylene oxide emissions from the facilities that use it over its links to ...

A recently announced rule from the EPA would reduce an estimated 90% of ethylene oxide emissions from the facilities that use it over its links to ...

A recently announced rule from the EPA would reduce an estimated 90% of ethylene oxide emissions from the facilities that use it over its links to ...

The closure of one of the nation's most toxic medical equipment sterilization facilities will reduce residents' exposure to carcinogenic ethylene oxide.