Chemical plants will have to curb certain emissions under a new rule aimed at slashing cancer risk for those nearby. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday issued a final rule on pollutants ...

In recent months, several medical device sterilization plants have been forced to shut down among rising concerns that ethylene oxide, a chemical used to sterilize more than half of the country’s ...

Emissions of ethylene oxide from major chemical plants in Louisiana. The new ethylene oxide rule also will affect major existing facilities elsewhere in the state – including the Sasol Chemicals LLC ...

ATLANTA — Initial tests by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division show ethylene oxide levels at one Atlanta-area monitoring station exceeding the base level for the “concentration at or below ...

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Croda’s ethylene oxide plant has been out-of-commission since Thanksgiving weekend 2018. That’s when a leak of ethylene oxide wreaked havoc with holiday traffic on the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which ...

HOUSTON, July 19-- A unit of Dow Chemical Co. has let an engineering contract to Aker Kvaerner ASA for development of process design and extended process design packages for two ethylene ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- Results from recent air testing has detected higher levels of cancer-causing ethylene oxide near two plants in Lake County, Illinois. Twelve canisters are in place in Lake ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized tighter standards and enhanced worker protections Thursday for medical sterilization facilities that use the colorless gas ethylene oxide (EtO), ...

Ethylene oxide is a basic chemical building block for a slew of modern products, including plastics and medicines. This seven-atom molecule is the simplest epoxide. But not much is simple in the ...