The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking Sterigenics, a Cobb County company that has come under fire in the past few years, to report its releases of a toxic gas.
The company sterilizes medical equipment using ethylene oxide, which can cause cancer.
It’s one of more than 30 companies the EPA sent letters to earlier this month, notifying them that the agency plans to start requiring them to report releases of ethylene oxide to the Toxics Release Inventory, a federal database.
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