Medical Design and Outsourcing — Sterigenics and the state of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency have reached a consent agreement to reopen the company’s Willowbrook medical device sterilization plant. The state EPA ordered the plant closed in February 2019, citing excessive emissions of the sterilant EO. MORE…
WGN9 — Governor Pritzker has signed legislation imposing the nation’s strictest limits on ethylene oxide emissions. WATCH…
Chicago Tribune — Repeated air testing around the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook showed elevated levels of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. That led to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s decision to… MORE…
Senator Dick Durbin Press Release — U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met with residents of Willowbrook, Illinois, who have been impacted by ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions from the Sterigenics medical sterilization facility in their community. MORE…
Suburban Life Media — Willowbrook residents soon may have regulations in place to address the public health crisis created by unsafe levels of the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide in the community’s air supply. MORE…
