Ethylene oxide is used to sterilize medical equipment, spices, and other things -- and is responsible for higher lifetime cancer risks near industrial facilities around the country. But many residents living near these plants weren’t told about the risks.

U.S. Steel Midwest idled the plant in Portage, about 30 miles east of Chicago, as a precaution after it said a wastewater treatment facility experienced “an upset condition” that sent the rusty colored plume containing elevated levels of lead into the Burns Waterway on Sunday.

The EPA said monitoring will continue at the three sites, which were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

Four public drinking water wells in Goshen are contaminated with 1,2-dichloroethane -- an industrial chemical used to make things like PVC pipes and remove grease. It's also a byproduct of chemicals used in dry cleaning.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to update the water pollution standards for slaughterhouses -- something that hasn't been done in more than 15 years.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is considering making rules for more than 60 different contaminants in drinking water that aren’t regulated right now.

Bloomington, Clarksville, and Union City will receive grants totaling $1.4 million to clean up contaminated properties.

There are a number of ways the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden can help reduce pollution in Indiana. That was one takeaway from the Hoosier Environmental Councils Earth Day panel discussion with two former EPA employees.

Indiana environmental groups have joined several others in asking the Environmental Protection Agency to limit nutrient pollution in the Ohio River.

The Environmental Protection Agency is facing a lawsuit for not setting limits for certain hazardous air pollutants at steel mills -- like mercury and the cancer-causing chemical benzene.