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MORE THAN 80% OF U.S. DRY CLEANERS RELY ON THE solvent PCE (perchloroethylene), a chemical that is listed under the Clean Air Act as a hazardous air pollutant. Perc, as it is commonly known, can cause dizziness and headaches in workers, and some controversial studies link it to miscarriage and cancer. Perc is also fingered for contaminating underground water systems as well as apartments and restaurants adjacent to dry-cleaning establishments...
...estimated 500 million pounds of perc produced annually is used by cleaners. In an effort to reduce exposure to perc, the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with trade groups, has launched a four-week test of a new cleaning method that eschews all chemical solvent and depends instead on biodegradable soaps along with heat, steam and pressing. The experiment uses clothing volunteered by government employees in Washington and New York City. First up was EPA chief William Reilly, who turned over his regulation blue suit...
Healy is credited with molding strong fiscal policy and keeping the city solvent during the recession. Under Healy's ten-year tenure as city manager, he has made Cambridge the city with the highest bond rating in the Commonwealth...
Paint-stripping and engine-maintenance operations present a more formidable challenge. At the Naval Air Engineering Center in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a plume of water contaminated by TCE solvent is leaking into the aquifer that supplies water to the southern part of the state. Investigations at the Norfolk Naval Base complex in Virginia are only partly completed, but it already appears that the Navy's biggest single installation may turn out to be its biggest contamination problem...
Faubus finally went a bit too far in his government bashing. Partly to compensate, the citizens in 1966 elected the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction, Winthrop Rockefeller, in 1966. Rockefeller, who served four years, instituted a number of reforms, largely with the help of a Federal Government still solvent at the time and intent on building a Great Society...