Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas
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. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006.
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