Ethylene oxide (EO) is a versatile compound used to make ethylene glycol and numerous consumer products, including household cleaners and personal care items. Also used to sterilize medical equipment ...

ATLANTA — For years, local residents in several metro Atlanta communities may have been exposed to a cancer-causing chemical and they had no idea it was being released into the air. Three of the ...

While ethylene oxide (EO) has long been subject to federal regulation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently sharpened its focus on EO emissions. Despite publishing its plans to ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state lawmakers promote their newly adopted restrictions on cancer-causing ethylene oxide as the “toughest in the nation.” Lobbyists for chemical companies and manufacturers go ...

(CBS)-- What is ethylene oxide, the cancer-causing agent at the center of the Sterigenics case? The chemical is used to sterilize medical equipment. According to the Illinois Environmental Protection ...

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation that postpones compliance with a rule designed to tighten emissions of ethylene oxide at companies that use this gas to sterilize medical equipment.

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new regulations to govern the more than 80 industrial facilities across the nation that use ethylene oxide, a highly potent and toxic ...

For more than a year, medical device manufacturer Becton Dickinson has been working with government officials in Tucson, Arizona, to erect a plant that would sterilize products vital to the supply ...

When Julie Cannell was born in the 1980s, the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook churned up to 169,000 pounds of cancer-causing ethylene oxide into the air every year. Cannell grew up about a mile from ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Months ago, CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini introduced viewers to Matt Haller, a man who died of stomach cancer. Haller told CBS 2 before his death he believed his cancer was caused by ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. For more than a year, medical device manufacturer Becton ...