Posts Tagged: Air Quality Management District

Pending regulation on EtO puts California patient care at risk

Ethylene oxide, image by luchschenF

by LUCY FRAISER posted 10.06.2023

OPINION: EtO sterilizes 20 billion, roughly half, of all medical devices in the U.S. annually. It’s the only viable method for many devices, key to preventing serious and even fatal infection in just about every medical procedure. While some risk exists from this substance at high levels under certain circumstances, regulating it out of use for this purpose would be far worse for public health.

SoCal air board faces new threat — Sacramento

A smog-tinged view in black and white of Century City, Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles. (Photo: Trekandshoot, via Shutterstock)

by CAROLE BESWICK posted 08.03.2016

OPINION: Local leadership in California faces a threat – SB 1387. This bill would reduce the influence local leaders have on a regional board – the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) – by adding even more Sacramento-appointed representatives. The bill would also allow a state agency to overrule the policy decisions of this regional board.