The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States.

Conventional ethylene production via steam cracking generates massive carbon emissions—about one ton of CO₂ per ton of ethylene—creating a major climate burden. Researchers developed a highly ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a set of new restrictions on facilities that use the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide, a colorless, odorless gas that is used to ...