Companies like Celanese and Indorama Ventures emit ethylene oxide and 1,3-butadiene into the air of predominantly Black and Latino communities, day and night.

June 24, 2019 / 11:13 AM CDT / CBS Chicago (CBS) -- What is ethylene oxide, the cancer-causing agent at the center of the Sterigenics case? The chemical is used to sterilize 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 ...

Chemical companies and their customers would avoid government mandates to spend millions of dollars on pollution-control equipment, or perhaps stop using ethylene oxide altogether.

Memphis plant that uses potentially hazardous chemical in area of mostly Black residents will close, company says The EPA said long-term or lifetime exposure to ethylene oxide could lead to a ...

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 ...

The proposal follows the EPA’s announcement last week to cut emissions from chemical plants in general to reduce cancer risk. In part, that rule targeted manufactures of ethylene oxide.

That means if 10,000 people are exposed to ethylene oxide at an 11-ppt concentration for 70 years, one of them will develop cancer. That such a low concentration of ethylene oxide can result in ...