Here's an inside look on how the mysterious cleaning method unfolds. For stubborn stains and delicate fabrics, dry cleaning can be a lifesaver. But how does dry cleaning work exactly? Dry cleaning is ...

SACRAMENTO – California air regulators on Thursday enacted the nation’s first statewide ban of the most common chemical used by dry cleaners. By 2023, no more dry-cleaning machines that use the toxic ...

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 ...

California will become the first state to phase out the use of perchloroethylene, or perc, a chemical used by commercial dry cleaners that has been linked in studies to bladder, esophageal and other ...

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 ...

"I thought it was a fantastic building right here in Fairview," he recalled. What his eyes didn’t see under Lorain Road nixed his property deal, he said. It also got him wondering. "It's one of those ...

When Song Shin bought Faulkenbury & Wright dry cleaners on the lip of downtown Seattle last year, he had an important financial decision to make: Buy a new dry-cleaning machine — one that used an ...

Southern California air quality officials voted Friday to impose the nation's first ban of the most commonly used dry cleaning solvent because of health concerns. Dry cleaning businesses would have to ...

It was February and Blase Buononato, who co-owns Valleybrook Cleaners, a Wayne, N.J., dry cleaner that his father opened in 1971, had a decision to make. For almost 35 years, Valleybrook had used ...

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 ...