People living near two Lake County industries could face significantly greater risks of developing certain cancers, according to a new federal study based on monitoring of ethylene oxide pollution in ...

Exposing seedlings to ethylene in darkness increases size and vigor, in a finding with implications for agriculture. Farmers have worked to increase crop yields for millennia, and the quest remains ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized tighter standards and enhanced worker protections Thursday for medical sterilization facilities that use the colorless gas ethylene oxide (EtO), ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 6 (February 9, 2021), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) The gaseous phytohormone ethylene mediates numerous aspects of ...

Chemical plants will have to curb certain emissions under a new rule aimed at slashing cancer risk for those nearby. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday issued a final rule on pollutants ...

Brad Binder receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Just like any other organism, plants can get stressed. Usually it’s conditions like heat and drought that lead to this stress, ...

It’s been a good tomato season this year, and reports are that tomatoes are replacing the venerable zucchini overload when it comes to giving produce away. But as we get into the end of September, and ...

Kuraray plans to invest $410 million to build an ethylene vinyl alcohol plant in Singapore. The plant, which will have 18,000 metric tons (t) per year of capacity, will start up in 2026. Ethylene ...

SINGAPORE, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell opened its mono-ethylene glycol plant on Singapore's Jurong Island on Friday, the latest milestone towards the completion of the firm's refinery and ...