The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Tuesday to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of ...

Sterigenics, its parent company and a corporate predecessor should pay $346 million for exposing a Willowbrook woman and thousands of others to cancer-causing ethylene oxide, her attorney urged a jury ...

A chemical known to increase the risk of cancer is far more prevalent in the air along the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans than previously thought, a new study has found ...

Medical-sterilization company Sterigenics has been found liable by a Cook County, Illinois, jury for causing cancer in a Willowbrook resident. The company was ordered to pay Sue Kamuda $363 million ...

Ethylene oxide emissions from Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies (BCT) in Lakewood have been identified as a cancer risk, according to multiple studies, including several from the Environmental ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Opening statements began Thursday in the first trial from a lawsuit against Sterigenics. The company sterilizes medical devices. It is accused of illegally releasing ethylene oxide, a ...

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation that postpones compliance with a rule designed to tighten emissions of ethylene oxide at companies that use this gas to sterilize medical equipment.

Nearly every major industrial source of ethylene oxide makes it relatively easy for Americans to know how much of the cancer-causing gas drifts into surrounding communities. The only outliers are two ...

TAUNTON — “Right now, our entire industry is up in arms. But not just our industry. Not just the medical industry. It’s many industries. This is affecting a lot of people,” said Gary Cranston, ...