Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2024
Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updated regulations for certain facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, cancer-causing gas. For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates emissions of EtO, yet the agency is years behind on updating standards and control requirements, despite mounting evidence of the harm of long-term EtO exposure. A decade overdue , EPA is finalizing updated regulations for commercial sterilizers now.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. electricity to about one-fifth today. Download as PDF
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
A decade later, in 2005, the agency contemplated banning new commercial sterilizers from using the gas, forcing them to use alternatives. EN: Ethylene oxide is just one of 188 hazardous air pollutants the EPA regulates, and the agency typically regulates them in isolation—despite the fact that people are exposed to multiple toxins.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 7, 2023
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.
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