AROUND TOWN: Mayor Bacon to order air quality test in wake of toxic gas reports - MDJOnline.com
AROUND TOWN: Mayor Bacon to order air quality test in wake of toxic gas reports - MDJOnline.com AROUND TOWN: Mayor Bacon to order air quality test in wake of toxic gas reports - MDJOnline.com Posted: 30 Jul 2019 02:56 PM PDT Smyrna Mayor Max Bacon Smyrna Mayor Max Bacon rang Around Town on Monday to say he was ordering the city manager to begin an air quality test this week in the wake of reports that the area may have a higher than normal concentration of a toxic gas linked to cancer. Earlier this month, Georgia Health News released a report concerning ethylene oxide emissions in the area, a toxic gas which the company Sterigenics uses to sterilize medical equipment. Bacon emphasized that the Sterigenics plant is outside Smyrna's city limits. Even so, "We want to do our own air quality test. And I don't want this company to do an air quality test. That doesn't make any sense. We need to do our o...