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 ...

JJ Nevares beat cancer, now his family questions if emissions from a nearby medical sterilization plant were responsible.

"The central question on appeal is whether Georgia courts should apply the standard adopted by the United States Court of ...

Sterilization technicians and plant staff who worked with ethylene oxide face a serious health question: could routine ...

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 knock on the door forced Cathy Flint to her feet. It had been five years since her diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a cancer that has left her with bones protruding from her neck and down her spine, ...

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.

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, ...

Industry-connected political appointees in the Trump administration blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from investigating ethylene oxide polluters and prevented career staff from warning ...