LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) – You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, but you can’t live without it.
And for years, residents questioned exactly that—whether the air we breathe is actually doing us more harm than good.
This past week at city council: a presentation of new findings of ethylene oxide emissions in Laredo by the Environmental Protection Agency.
As part of the four-month-long study, air quality monitors were placed around the industrial park district near Midwest Sterilization and within the nearest school and neighborhood.
According to the EPA, the study showed that ethylene concentrations dropped the further away people were from Midwest Sterilization.
Findings indicated that the exposure to ethylene caused no immediate health effects, and in fact, the EPA went on to revise prior findings.
A resolution was also reached to work towards blood testing, a step the EPA says is unnecessary.
Laredo Mayor Dr. Victor Treviño shares his thoughts on the study in addition to addressing another issue affecting our community—issues plaguing the World Trade Bridge, where traffic can back up for miles, take hours, and has more than just a financial cost to the city’s status as the number one port in the country.
Then, history is made in a courtroom: the People of the State of New York versus Donald J. Trump.
Our panel discusses the first-of-its-kind case in more ways than one and whether the case has merit, amounts to election interference, and has any influence when voters cast their ballot in November.
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