Rose Sims News Today

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — 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

Members of the Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP) and other city officials and advocates will be holding a press conference at 10 a.m. to bring attention to the last day

Lettie White, one of the subjects of FOX13’s ongoing Contaminated Community series, passed away.

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.

Neighbors in South Memphis told FOX13 that theyre counting down the days until Sterilization Services of Tennessee closes at the end of April.

On December 22, 2021, Wardlaw reported her boyfriend missing to the police. Eight days later, his body was discovered in a bag near a creek on Monticello Road.

Mallory Heights is the very neighborhood Sterilization Services of Tennessee has emitted ethylene oxide since 1979.

In a major win for community members in South Memphis, Tennessee, a facility emitting a toxic air pollutant—ethylene oxide (EtO)—announced late last month that it will close its doors. UCS featured the facility in its analysis earlier this year of the public health threat EtO poses to communities ac

Toxic chemicals continue to pour out of Sterilization Services of Tennessee on Florida Street and are endangering everyone who lives nearby.