EPA bans cancer-causing chemicals commonly used in dry cleaning

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The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to ban two chemicals commonly used in everyday products, such as dry-cleaning materials, that have been found to cause cancer and a number of other life-changing diseases. 

The agency finalized rules ordering the ban Monday, aligning with President Joe Biden’s “cancer moonshot” whole-of-government initiative to fund cancer research and dramatically lower cancer death rates across the United States. 

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