Everyone has seen a washing machine. You throw in a load of clothes, add soap and turn it on. Gallons of water pour in to wash and rinse the clothes. It's not that different from the days of washing ...

Beloved by dry cleaners for its near-magical ability to lift stains, the solvent tetrachloroethylene has few fans among environmental advocates or local water suppliers, who have spent millions to ...

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State Rep. Julie M. Rogers, of Kalamazoo, introduced a bill that would phase out the usage of a toxic chemical in dry cleaning solvent. Perchloroethylene, also known as PERC ...

Nearly all uses of perchloroethylene evaluated by the US Environmental Protection Agency present unreasonable risks to workers and consumers, the agency says in a final assessment released Dec. 14.

Just three months after Southern California’s smog agency adopted landmark regulations phasing out use of its most commonly used dry cleaning solvent, there’s a bill in the Legislature that would ...

A collaboration between Associate Professor TSUDA Akihiko’s research group at Kobe University’s Graduate School of Science and AGC Incorporated has succeeded in synthesizing various useful compounds ...