Your browser does not support the audio element. Martha Montalván arrived from Ecuador in 2002 at age 19 and worked 12 hours every day except Sunday at a dry cleaner ...
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 ...
One of the region’s largest dry cleaning companies recently washed its hands of perchloroethylene, the dry cleaning chemical at the heart of about 170 cleaner site cleanups statewide.
Hyen Sook Kang said she first started to worry about the chemicals used in her Wallingford dry cleaning business when a woman at her church got sick. “One day, she seemed abnormally thin,” Kang said ...
The biggest fines in the region last year were $1,500. The biggest fines were paid by Calco Cleaners in Nanuet and OK Cleaners in Bedford Hills. The N.Y. Dept. of Environmental Conservation regulates ...
Anyone who has sent clothes to a dry cleaner has experienced it. You can detect a chemical smell when you take the clothes from the plastic wrapping. Many of us wonder: Does that chemical smell ...
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 ...
State Environmental Regulation columnist Charlotte A. Biblow writes that about 70 percent of the dry cleaners located in the state still use perc as their solvent of choice, despite a 1997 regulation ...
On a Wednesday morning at Sun Cleaners in Seattle, Hyen Sook Kang and her husband Tae Park were busy pressing clean shirts, arranging them in machines that stretch and steam them. Kang and Park have ...
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 ...
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