A new scientific analysis shows communities of color and lower-income neighborhoods are disproportionately harmed by pollution from industrial sites emitting the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide.
That includes some heavily-populated areas of metro Atlanta, which is home to four such industrial facilities, including Sterigenics in Smyrna.
Darya Minovi is a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She recently joined WABE’s “All Things Considered” to explain where ethylene oxide is used and why Atlanta in particular should be concerned.
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