The feds plan to ban two common solvents: one that cleansed NASA rockets, the other our clothes. Both fueled cancer fears in Brevard and elsewhere.
As the EPA phases in a ban on toxic chemicals used in dry-cleaning, read this guide on the cleaner way to care for your ...
The cancer-causing chemicals TCE and PCE have been found at dozens of sites in Vermont that were home to dry cleaning ...
The E.P.A. also banned all consumer uses of perchloroethylene, used in dry-cleaning and in automotive-care products. Though it is less harmful than TCE, the solvent, also called Perc, can cause ...
Mainly found in dry-cleaning solvents, perc, or PCE, is released into the environment by industrial processes, including dry cleaning. Some of it evaporates in the air, while some sinks into the ...
The solvents are used in a variety of products, including cleaners, degreasers, sealants, lubricants, adhesives, paints and commercial applications such as dry cleaning. Safer alternatives are ...
The Biden administration is banning a cancer-causing substance used in dry cleaning and is also banning most uses of another, similar chemical. The administration’s ban is on a chemical known as ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned the use of two ubiquitous cancer-causing solvents that activists have ...
(CNN) – The Environmental Protection Agency has banned two cancer-causing dry cleaning solvents. Trichloroethylene, or TCE, is a toxic chemical used in cleaners, spot removers, lubricants and glue.
David Pratt felt relieved upon learning that the Environmental Protection Agency banned two known carcinogens used in ...