A Plant That Sterilizes Medical Equipment Spews Cancer-Causing Pollution on Tens of Thousands of Schoolchildren Nobody told Yaneli Ortiz’s family that the factory they lived near emitted ethylene oxide. Not when the EPA found it causes cancer. Not when she was diagnosed with leukemia. And not when Texas moved to allow polluters to emit more of the chemical.
By Kiah Collier, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Maya Miller, ProPublica, photography by Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, graphics by Al Shaw and Lucas Waldron | Dec. 27, 2021, 5 a.m. CST |
EPA to Reconsider Issues Related to Risks Posed by Ethylene Oxide Emissions for Certain Types of Chemical Manufacturing (January 26, 2022)
EPA Rejects Texas’ More Lenient Standard for Highly Toxic Air Pollutant In the wake of an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune into the widely used chemical ethylene oxide, the EPA has moved to reject a less protective standard crafted by Texas regulators and backed by the chemical industry.
by Kiah Collier, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Maya Miller, ProPublica | January 28, 5 p.m. CST |
EPA Public Comment Process
EPA rejects Texas’s attack on science, aiming for stronger toxic air pollution limits Curbing ethylene oxide emissions is necessary to stop cancer hot spots in Louisiana and Texas
CONTACTS: Erin Fitzgerald, Earthjustice, efitzgerald@earthjustice.org | January 26, 2022 |
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