EPA Approves Ban on Use of PERC in Textile Mills, Dry Cleaning by 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved California’s regulations banning the use of the toxic air contaminant perchloroethylene (PERC) from the state’s dry cleaning operations by 2023, which means that the current federal regulations will be replaced with California’s more stringent…
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approach to be enforced by the EPA. PERC, a possible human carcinogen, is a man-made liquid solvent often used in the dry cleaning industry, in textile mill operations, by chlorofluorocarbon producers, for vapor degreasing and in metal cleaning operations.