After a series of explosions at medical sterilization plants during the late 1990s, federal safety officials urged Sterigenics International and other companies to overhaul the way they handled highly volatile and extremely dangerous ethylene oxide gas.
Instead of following through on some of the safety recommendations, the companies persuaded President George W. Bush's administration in 2001 to relax clean air regulations so sterilization facilities could bypass pollution-control equipment and vent the cancer-causing gas directly into the air, according to memos and other documents.
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