Ethylene oxide is used extensively in chemical manufacturing, agriculture, and fumigation, but it is extremely hazardous. In March 2020, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the ...

The EPA wants to limit use of ethylene oxide, a scourge to low-income communities nationwide, but a chemical considered essential to sterilizing medical equipment.

The chemical at the center of a Willowbrook environmental controversy — ethylene oxide — was discovered nearly 160 years ago and used over the decades as a sterilizer. Signs of health risks go ...

Ethylene oxide is a widely used chemical made in the U.S. by some of the industry’s global giants, including Dow Chemical, Huntsman, Shell and Union Carbide. Its main use is in the refining of ...

Identifying these warehouses and the 30 or so that emit some amount of ethylene oxide was a laborious process, in part because information about these facilities isn’t readily available.

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 ...

Chemists find greener path to making ethylene oxide, a key industrial chemical. Story by Science X staff • 5d.

Most ethylene oxide from chemical and plastics plants moves into the atmosphere through chimneys, stacks, or vents, says Neil Carman, clean air director at the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter.

From El Paso, Texas to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.

The findings come as state regulators and industry have said they were making efforts to cut ethylene oxide emissions since the chemical's carcinogenic nature was better understood in the mid-2010s.

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