Researchers find high levels of a cancer-causing chemical in southeast Louisiana
Levels of airborne ethylene oxide surpassed those measured in the industrial northeast US
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Levels of airborne ethylene oxide surpassed those measured in the industrial northeast US
Levels of a carcinogen in concentrations are as much as 20 times higher than previously estimated in this stretch of south Louisiana.
Scientists using new methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher than expected levels of the chemical in the air along a corridor in southeastern Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 20 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Although early tests by the state and a third-party contractor indicated only “non-detectable air quality impacts,” residents worried that wasn’t the whole picture.