County poised to join city to ask facility to reduce cancer-causing emissions
Sterilization Services of Tennessee located in South Memphis has been under scrutiny since last fall when the Environmental Protection Agency said living near the facility could increase residents’ lifetime cancer risk by up to 2,000 in a million. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
A small, but patient, group of South Memphis residents concerned about a cancer-causing pollutant in their neighborhood waited five hours to address the Shelby County Board of Commissioners yesterday.
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Keely Brewer is a Report for America corps member covering environmental impacts on communities of color in Memphis. She is working in partnership with the Ag & Water Desk, a sustainable reporting network aimed at telling water and agriculture stories across the Mississippi River Basin.
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