Colorado's second-highest court concluded last week that state law does not recognize a plaintiff's claim that a defendant's ...

Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.

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

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed five felony charges against Parter Medical Products Inc., its president and its manager, alleging they exposed employees to hazardous levels of ethylene oxide ...

The bellwether plaintiffs allege that ethylene oxide is not only toxic, but that the Sterigenics has been emitting “tens to hundreds of thousands of pounds of [the chemical] into the nearby community” ...

Experts have speculated that claims like the plaintiff's could increase against defendants who maintain these ethylene oxide storage facilities or warehouses. An Illinois man filed suit in the Circuit ...

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation this month that delays a rule meant to tighten ethylene oxide emissions at companies that use the gas to sterilize medical equipment. The decision grants ...

President Donald Trump is temporarily exempting medical sterilization facilities that use the colorless gas ethylene oxide from tighter emissions standards, including plants in Georgia that have ...

Last week the Trump administration eased pollution regulations for dozens of industrial sites across the country that spew toxic emissions — two of which operate inside Indiana. The new proclamations ...