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Yellow journalism? Chicago Tribune reporter Hawthorne accused of hyping Sterigenics scare
An environmental analyst blames Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Hawthorne for duping many Willowbrook, Darien, Burr Ridge and Hinsdale residents into believing the air in their communities causes cancer.
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"You can make it up;" Sterigenics scare stems from two suspect EPA studies
Federal agencies relied on faulty, even completely unreliable, air quality figures to target the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook as a regional health threat, air quality and "junk science" experts say.
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“Clarification,” not apology is all Willowbrook residents can expect from federal agencies over hyped-up cancer scare
A regional director for a federal health agency said Monday that he expected a “clarification” from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but not a public retraction or formal apology over its erroneous reports of harmful emissions of ethylene oxide (EO) from the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook.