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Why is New Jersey Considering Phasing Out the Use of Perchloroethylene (PCE) at Dry Cleaners?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers PCE to be a possible to probable human carcinogen or cancer causing substance. Additionally, this chemical is among a group of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) indicating that the chemical's vapor pressure causes it to become a vapor at standard conditions. Because of this attribute, and its widespread use in the dry cleaning business, PCE is also one of the country's top toxic air pollutants.

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