The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new set of restrictions on facilities that use ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic chemical used in sterilizing medical devices.
Last week, a report by the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General, an independent watchdog that oversees the actions of the federal agency, said “political appointees” hindered the efforts of agency staff to investigate the scope of ethylene oxide contamination.
Recent air testing in neighborhoods around a medical equipment sterilization facility in suburban Atlanta has detected significantly more cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas than when the plant was not operating last fall.
On this Special Edition of Political Rewind, it’s a look at the biggest political stories of 2019. A new governor put his unique stamp on Georgia, an...
Residents of an Atlanta suburb want the federal government to investigate cases of cancer near a medical sterilization plant that uses a gas linked to...
Georgia’s attorney general has asked for a temporary injunction against the Becton Dickinson plant in Covington. The lawsuit, filed in Newton County...
The Sterigenics plant in Cobb County has been ordered to shut down. County leaders on Tuesday ordered the sterilization facility near Smyrna to stop all...
Smyrna and Cobb County officials released the first results of independent tests of air quality near the Sterigenics facility. The results, released at...
On Friday, Sterigenics medical facility in Cobb County said it will suspend operations while updates to reduce emissions of the toxic gas ethylene oxide...
More than a week after an investigation by Georgia Health News and WebMD uncovered toxic levels of ethylene oxide in parts of metro Atlanta, congressman...
“Shut it down!” These words echoed through the auditorium at Campbell Middle School in Cobb County, where more than 200 concerned residents crammed in...
