The winter holidays are a busy time for many businesses, including retail stores, grocers, liquor stores – and dry cleaners. People pull out special-occasion clothes made of silk, satin or other ...

Your choice of dry cleaner may make a difference in your health. Nearly 2,000 dry cleaners in New York State use a chemical that has been considered a toxic carcinogen by the Environmental Protection ...

Environmental groups are pushing the Federal Trade Commission to do away with dry clean only labels. Dry cleaners, the groups say, often use cleaning chemicals that are harmful to the environment and ...

The solvent used by most dry cleaners is a toxin that’s truly earned the label: The Environmental Protection Agency recently deemed perchloroethylene, or perc, a likely carcinogen when inhaled, making ...

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 ...

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 New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, housed at Rochester Institute of Technology, has launched the New York State Professional Wet Cleaning Program, which seeks to minimize chemical use ...