L.A. Area May Ban Dry Clean Solvent
 (Diamond Bar, CA, Health AP, 9/17/02)

Regulators in Southern California want to phase out the use of the common dry-cleaning solvent, perchloroethylene (perc), because it contaminates the environment and is probably carcinogenic. Although they face opposition from the chemical industry, as well as small dry cleaning businesses, the officials at the South Coast Air Quality Management District are convinced that they must push forward because evidence shows that in the Los Angeles area, diesel exhaust is the only air pollutant that causes more cancer than perc.