Following NBC Los Angeles’ reporting this month, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli announced Thursday that he is requesting the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the rare cancer cases affecting children in Ladera Ranch.
NBCLA first reported that six children were diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma — a rare bone and soft-tissue cancer — but later learned of about a dozen rare cancer cases in children in Ladera Ranch and other Orange County cities. About 200 to 240 children and teens are diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma every year in the nation, according to the American Cancer Society.
Essayli said he wants the federal agency to look into possible environmental causes and whether federal environmental laws are implicated…