In December, the EPA announced a phased ban of a cancer-causing chemical that can persist in groundwater. Iowa’s 1st District ...

PCE (short for perchloroethylene or tetrachloroethylene and sometimes called “perc”) is a toxic chemical that, once spilled, can keep on contaminating soil, water and indoor air for decades. It’s not ...

The agency is also banning the consumer use of perchloroethylene, also called Perc or PCE. That chemical is also used in dry cleaning and in automotive care products. Health officials say Perc is ...

A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world's fastest-growing brain condition – Parkinson's disease. For the past 100 years, trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to ...

Jan. 10: The Environmental Protection Agency finalized two rules last month that ban degreasing chemical trichloroethylene and dry-cleaning solvent perchloroethylene, according to an agency press ...

The annual rate of core PCE inflation is expected to drop from 2.8% in December to 2.6% in January. The Fed is expected to hold interest rates steady at its next meeting in March and through much ...