The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to scrap Biden-era regulations on ethylene oxide, a gas used in medical sterilization plants that has been linked to cancer.
The agency under the Biden administration significantly tightened restrictions on gas in 2024, aiming to cut emissions by more than 90%, after the EPA determined that ethylene oxide is far more toxic than previously thought.
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