Lake County Residents Push Springfield To Ban Ethylene Oxide
By Daniel Tucker
Lake County Residents Push Springfield To Ban Ethylene Oxide
By Daniel Tucker
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Two sterilization plants in the Lake County towns of Waukegan and Gurnee are emitting the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide into the air.
Reset checks in with two members of an organization pushing to ban ethylene oxide emissions as well as with the reporter whose stories first raised the alarm about the gas in the Chicago area.
GUESTS: Tea Tanaka, co-founder of Stop EtO in Lake County, senior scientist
John Aldrin, member of Stop EtO in Lake County, data computational scientist at NASA
Michael Hawthorne, reporter at the Chicago Tribune