Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. A medical supply sterilizing facility east of Atlanta that is under scrutiny for toxic emissions had an eight-day leak last month of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing substance. The City of Covington on Wednesday released a report on the […]
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Kemp to investigate toxic pollution in Georgia cities
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Gov. Brian Kemp’s office said Thursday that it’s investigating toxic pollution involving two medical device sterilization plants in metro Atlanta. An EPA report last year flagged two census tracts in the Smyrna area and one in […]
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Smyrna will test the air for toxins after a cancer-causing chemical was released
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Story updated The city of Smyrna has pledged to do independent air testing for a cancer-causing chemical released by a medical sterilizing plant. “We want to be as proactive as we can,” said Tim Gould of the […]
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Georgians join with Illinois residents to rally against cancer-causing gas
Brenda Goodman is senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is the editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Twilight was falling, but the heat would not let up. Cars packed the tiny parking lot of a historic red brick building that sits on a corner of North Church Road in Atlanta, their tires crunching […]
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Georgia residents and elected officials are alarmed after learning about a cancer-causing gas that was released into the air
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Local residents and their elected officials in metro Atlanta are responding with concern after learning that a cancer-causing gas could be drifting through the air near their homes, schools and workplaces. On Friday, WebMD and Georgia Health […]
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Is there an airborne cancer-causing toxin in your neighborhood?
This story is jointly reported by Brenda Goodman of WebMD and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News. Ann Singley was trying to muscle her lawnmower out of a ditch in front of her home in Covington when she felt a tug in her breast. It was a hard lump, and in the days after she […]