“ (PCE), a known carcinogen, has degraded at least 215 wells in the Central Valley of California. … The majority of these wells are large system municipal wells of 200 connections or more,” the board ...

Two dangerous chemicals commonly used in dry cleaning have been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency. The colorless solvents, known as Perc or PCE and TCE, can cause kidney cancer and other ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned the use of two ubiquitous cancer-causing solvents that activists have been targeting for decades. The ban involves trichloroethylene, or TCE, a ...

ISO recently published a three-part International standard that provides safety requirements for dry-cleaning machines. Laundry and dry laundry cleaning frequently use perchloroethylene or combustible ...

So you plan to sell that strip mall you purchased 25 years ago to provide a nice, comfortable retirement — until soil and groundwater contamination is discovered when a prospective buyer conducts a ...

That’s because in dry cleaners’ common practice — before better equipment and regulations were developed — the chemical was often dumped down drains or splashed on porous floors. As a result, over the ...