With new EPA regulations on ethylene oxide, facilities face compliance challenges that underscore the need for proactive safety and emissions management.

Ethylene oxide trials continue nationwide, with a Georgia jury awarding $20 million. Learn about past verdicts and the growing wave of litigation ...

From El Paso, Texas, to Richmond, Virginia, medical device warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. And it's barely regulated.

In the first trial in hundreds of Georgia lawsuits, retired truck driver Gary Walker, 75, contends emmissions from ethylene oxide caused his cancer.

A subsidiary of Steris plc will pay up to $48.15 million to settle hundreds of claims pending in Cook County, Illinois, alleging personal injury from emissions of ethylene oxide (EO) used to sterilize ...

As lawsuits against a company that uses ethylene oxide get resolved, air regulators are keeping tabs on local facilities.

Two lawsuits challenge the EPA’s regulation of ethylene oxide As the regulatory fight over toxic sterilization facilities continues, the health of more than 14 million people may hang in the ...

EPA’s risk assessment concluded that for people living near petrochemical facilities emitting the toxic gas, the maximum lifetime individual risk of cancer from exposure to ethylene oxide was ...

EPA cut use of cancer-causing sterilizer prolific in med-tech. A Minnesota company might have a fix. Medtronic and Boston Scientific are just two of the many companies that use ethylene oxide to ...