Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – An assistant professor at the University of Illinois Springfield helped put together a report showing some potentially concerning things regarding large-scale waste sites that may be located in areas predominantly populated with what are termed “marginalized communities.” Jessica Madrigal, associate professor in the School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability and Public Health in the UIS College of Health, Science and Technology, talks about Sociodemographic characteristics of populations living near industrial land disposals of known and suspected carcinogens across the United States with Will Stevenson on the WTAX Morning Newswatch.
UIS prof has hand in work on cancer-causing chemicals at big waste sites
"Sociodemographic characteristics of populations living near industrial land disposals of known and suspected carcinogens across the United States" was published in April.
