The widely used dry-cleaning and degreasing solvent perc can be converted to useful chemicals by a new clean, safe and inexpensive procedure. The discovery using on-demand UV activation may open the ...

In a new report released today, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) concluded that the dry-cleaning fluid perchloroethylene (also called perc or PCE) is not hazardous to humans at ...

Cities around the Valley are wrestling with a legacy of environmental contamination: a chemical used for decades by dry cleaners. Now suspected of causing cancer, the chemical has permeated ...

A former NASA scientist has created a video showing the effect that a chemical still regularly used today by Britain’s dry cleaning industry has on plants and flowers. Dr. Kyle Grant’s experiment ...

Photo-on-demand one-pot synthesis provides an environment in which harmless source materials such as the dry-cleaning agent perc can be upcycled to useful products safely, cheaply and in an ...