IL HJR0056

Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct ambient air monitoring and testing around two known ethylene oxide-emitting facilities in Lake County, Illinois

Requests that the EPA address serious concerns from Lake County residents regarding ethylene oxide emissions and associated public health and environmental threats

Notes that the EPA previously found heightened ethylene oxide levels around a Sterigenics facility in Willowbrook, leading to an Illinois EPA seal order on February 15, 2019

Urges the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to assist in ambient air monitoring and protection efforts regarding ethylene oxide emissions in Lake County

Identifies ethylene oxide as a known carcinogen whose discharge into the atmosphere in high concentrations poses a threat to public health and safety