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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.

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

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A plant that used toxic chemicals to sterilize medical equipment in South Memphis is now closed, and community members who stood their ground were cheering Tuesday. Memphis Community Against Pollution, along with residents living near Sterilization Services of Tennessee, celebrated the business closing it doors. “We are here because Sterilization Services of […]

One resident asked the county to preserve green space in a section of Henrico populated by landfills, junk yards and distribution centers.

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

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 ...