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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 ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed changes to rollback safeguards against air emissions of ethylene oxide (EtO), a highly carcinogenic gas used to sterilise about half of all ...

The toxic gas ethylene oxide, at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, was detected across parts of Louisiana with a cutting-edge mobile air-testing lab. The concentrations ...