"(Ethylene oxide) is present in the environment and is created by various sources, including vehicle exhaust, plant and soil metabolism, and even fruit ripening. Without knowing the background ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a set of new restrictions on facilities that use the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide, a colorless, odorless gas that is used to ...

Over the past two years, Madeline Beal has heard frustration and even bewilderment during public meetings about ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas that is used to sterilize half of the medical ...

Acting in response to community health experts and environmental justice advocates, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tougher standards on pollution from several toxic chemicals ...

Retired truck driver Gary Walker, 75, claims his decades of exposure to ethylene oxide at and around a sterilization facility in Covington caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer.

On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limits on the use of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide. The hope is to reduce ethylene oxide emissions by 80%, which the agency ...

A colorless gas called ethylene oxide is used to decontaminate about 20 billion medical devices per year, about half of all medical equipment used annually. This process often happens within ...

The rule targets emissions of ethylene oxide, an odorless, colorless gas that has been linked to several types of cancer, particularly lymphoma and leukemia. It illustrates the tensions between ...

Cancer risks from ethylene oxide emissions at a Lehigh County facility have decreased over the past four years but are not entirely eliminated, Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday.

And one of the companies that operates within Vernon has recently become the target of lawsuits over its use of a chemical called ethylene oxide, a colorless, flammable gas used to sterilize ...