The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments.

An estimated 50% of sterile medical devices in the U.S. are treated with ethylene oxide. It is also a known carcinogen.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment ...

Ethylene oxide plays a crucial role in sterilizing lifesaving medical devices, including pacemakers and syringes, but long-term exposure can cause leukemia and other types of cancer among people who ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has been imbued with a whole bunch of important functions in the more than half century of its existence, from crafting and generally enforcing regulations to ...

The EPA has proposed to relax pollution limits on ethylene oxide, a chemical used in medical sterilization, citing concerns over supply chain stability, despite health risks associated with its use.

The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to scrap Biden-era regulations on ethylene oxide, a gas used in medical sterilization plants that has been linked to cancer. Trump administration ...

Iffat Walker didn’t realize how close a facility that had been emitting a toxic chemical shown to cause lymphoma and breast cancer was to her family until she pulled up a map. Her mother’s home in ...

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over a chemical found in medical-grade sterilizers. Charlotte-based nonprofit CleanAIRE NC recently joined three other nonprofits in the suit ...

The Trump administration on Friday moved to roll back Biden-era limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical often used in the sterilization of medical devices. The Environmental ...