Cancer risks from ethylene oxide emissions at a Lehigh County facility have decreased over the past four years but are not entirely eliminated, Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday.

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Test results of air samples taken at about two dozen locations around a plant that uses ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment show levels of the carcinogenic gas increased after it reopened ...

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 ...

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

An EPA map showing areas of concern near the Sterigenics sterilization plant in Kingsbury. The plant uses ethylene oxide gas in its process, which is known to cause cancer from long term exposure. The ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents in Lakewood that long-term exposure to a toxic chemical used by a local commercial sterilizing company could significantly increase their ...

INSTITUTE, W.Va. — A few dozen people were in attendance for a public hearing Thursday afternoon over the final report given by the Department of Environmental Protection and agreement between the ...

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 ...

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