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.

After snubbing a federal right-to-know law for years, two Chicago-area companies could soon be forced to join competitors that make it relatively easy for Americans to determine how much ...

Ethylene oxide emissions from Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies (BCT) in Lakewood have been identified as a cancer risk, according to multiple studies, including several from the Environmental ...

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 ...

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An EPA map showing areas of concern near the Sterigenics sterilization plant in Kingsbury. The plant uses ethylene oxide gas in its process, which is known to cause cancer from long term exposure. The ...

Nearly every major industrial source of ethylene oxide makes it relatively easy for Americans to know how much of the cancer-causing gas drifts into surrounding communities. The only outliers are two ...

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