The federal government is banning a toxic dry-cleaning chemical, leading people to wonder whether it’s safe to dry clean their clothes. The chemical in question is perchloroethylene, commonly ...

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

Firefighters were called to a potentially explosive situation when a gas pump caught on fire in Whitley Co. on February 6.

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 ...

In 2007, the state banned installations of new perchloroethylene dry-cleaning machines, required existing ones be shut down by 2010, and required a complete ban of use of the chemical by 2023.

(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. It ...

(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.