People across the nation claim cancer-causing emissions from local sterilizing plants are making them sick. It’s an example of environmental racism, say residents of one predominantly Black area in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, where life expectancy is much shorter than county and state averages.
For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern side of town.
A series of FOX13 investigations identified Boxtown, plagued by smog and chemicals, as the most polluted neighborhood in Memphis. Now, Severe Weather Center 13 has discovered that the Mid-South s extreme summers could be making matters worse.
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