The US Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead with plans to restrict the widely used dry-cleaning solvent perchloroethylene, also known as perc or PCE. Under a proposed rule, announced June 8 ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the environmental and public health threat posed by decades of pollution from dry cleaning chemicals across California. Taline Mazlemian ...

A chemical widely used for dry cleaning, degreasing industrial equipment, and production of fluorinated refrigerants poses unreasonable health risks to workers and consumers, the US Environmental ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series on the environmental and public health threat posed by decades of pollution from dry cleaning chemicals across California. California is facing ...

The use of a mainstay of the dry-cleaning industry – perchloroethylene – may be coming to an end. On June 16, 2023, EPA proposed to ban, under the Toxic Substance Control Act’s Section 6(a) authority, ...

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Peter Sinsheimer is director of the Pollution Prevention and Education Center at Occidental College. Robert Gottlieb is a professor of urban and environmental policy at Occidental. Everyone who has ...

Water laps at the shore at Lake Tahoe’s Pope Beach in July. A dry cleaning company may have polluted some of California’s purest water by discharging perchloroethylene, also known as PCE, the widely ...