On Friday, the US Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed rule that would scale back federal limits on emissions ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States. Now, the gas is at the center of a heated regulatory battle after the EPA ...

The EPA is proposing to loosen limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, a gas used to sterilize many medical devices that is linked to cancer.

The proposal would relax standards for facilities that use ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas, to sterilize medical devices ...

The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several ...

A medical sterilization facility that’s been the target of lawsuits over its use of a toxic gas will shut down after ...

The repeal loosens standards for roughly 90 facilities that emit the toxic chemical ethylene oxide in neighborhoods across the U.S.

Commercial sterilization operations find themselves in a more unique and complex regulatory context than many other industrial sources of EtO. Unlike the chemical manufacturing industry, which can ...

In the communities of people living and working around the 100+ facilities across the U.S. that use a chemical called ethylene oxide, contamination in the air may cause cancer. If your family lives ...