{"id":246973,"date":"2024-03-14T23:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/epa-finally-targets-the-carcinogen-used-to-sterilize-medical-tools\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T02:56:08","slug":"epa-finally-targets-the-carcinogen-used-to-sterilize-medical-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/epa-finally-targets-the-carcinogen-used-to-sterilize-medical-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA finally targets the carcinogen used to sterilize medical tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">People living near plants that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment have for years pressured regulators to crack down on their toxic emissions. Residents in communities from Laredo, Texas, to Willowbrook, Illinois have tried to shut these facilities down, challenged them in court, and fought for air sampling studies to measure their exposure to the carcinogen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The Environmental Protection Agency has finally taken notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Today the agency finalized new regulations that will require dozens of medical sterilization companies to adopt procedures and technologies that it claims will reduce emissions of the toxic chemical by 90 percent. The rule will take effect within two to three years, a longer timeline than advocates of the change hoped for. Still, regulators and community advocates alike hailed the change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">\u201cWe have followed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/accountability\/epa-finally-cracks-down-on-the-carcinogen-used-to-sterilize-medical-equipment\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living near plants that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment have for years pressured regulators to crack down on their toxic emissions. Residents in communities from Laredo, Texas, to Willowbrook, Illinois have tried to shut these facilities down, challenged them in court, and fought for air sampling studies to measure their exposure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":246974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EPA finally targets the carcinogen used to sterilize medical tools - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/accountability\/epa-finally-cracks-down-on-the-carcinogen-used-to-sterilize-medical-equipment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPA finally targets the carcinogen used to sterilize medical tools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"People living near plants that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment have for years pressured regulators to crack down on their toxic emissions. 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