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 ...

Naples Congressman Byron Donalds got a look at new anti-pollution measures in a central Fort Myers plant that sent carcinogenic ethylene oxide into the air for 12 years, according to the U.S.

EPA on Thursday announced new regulations to slash releases of a cancer-causing compound used by dozens of medical equipment sterilization plants, often located in heavily populated and marginalized ...

On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limits on the use of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide. The hope is to reduce ethylene oxide emissions by 80%, which the agency said ...

Louisiana’s southeastern corridor is sometimes known colloquially as “Cancer Alley” for its high cancer incidence rates connected to industrial air pollution. Most of the region’s air ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. People living near plants that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment have for years pressured ...

Ethylene oxide is a hazardous air pollutant. Because ethylene oxide is emitted in Texas and has been determined to be a carcinogen, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) undertook an ...

The federal government is cracking down on a widely used sterilization agent for medical devices, drawing concern from the medtech industry and cheers from environmental advocates. Last month, the ...

The Laundress is recalling hundreds of thousands of laundry products four months after issuing a separate recall of millions of laundry detergent and cleaning products. On Friday, the company ...

A chemical plant-smattered stretch of Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is already known as “Cancer Alley” due to disproportionately high levels of illnesses related to chemicals released ...

A company specializing in medical equipment sterilization will pay a $587,800 penalty to the South Coast Air Quality Management District to settle a series of violations resulting from the emission of ...