Michal Freedhoff, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and ... said the TCE ban will “end a century of it causing cancer.” Dorsey, who has also researched the strong ...
It's also worth noting that PERC can degrade into TCE, another cancer-causing solvent. "The EPA's recent move to ban PERC is due to the chemical's casual link with many adverse health conditions ...
During the first Trump administration, political appointees clashed repeatedly with the agency's watchdog over ethylene oxide ...
The plan carves out a new pollution source category titled “chemical manufacturing with ethylene oxide” and requires ...
The agency will phase out degreasing substance trichloroethylene and dry cleaning solvent perchloroethylene to protect ...
“We are very pleased with the EPA’s acknowledgment of the dangers of these chemicals and taking inevitable action to ban them,” said ... that may cause CleanCore’s actual results ...
The report was published weeks after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other ...
The feds plan to ban two common solvents: one that cleansed NASA rockets, the other our clothes. Both fueled cancer fears in Brevard and elsewhere.
The cancer-causing chemicals TCE and PCE have been found at dozens of sites in Vermont that were home to dry cleaning ...
But he noted the ban will do little to address the contamination already in the environment. Still, environmental advocates welcomed the EPA’s ruling on both chemicals. “When you have substances that ...
In response to these findings, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken significant steps to ban ... of cancer, prompting EPA action under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)." And ...