SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Oakland's McClymonds High School has shut down its campus indefinitely on Thursday after detecting a potentially harmful chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) in its groundwater.

WASHINGTON — After massive underground plumes of an industrial solvent were discovered in the nation’s water supplies, the Environmental Protection Agency mounted a major effort in the 1990s to assess ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule to regulate trichloroethylene recently went into effect, triggering compliance deadlines for implementing the prohibition and Workplace Chemical ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned the use of two ubiquitous cancer-causing solvents that activists have been targeting for decades.Related video above: Lee Zeldin chosen as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two chemicals used in dry cleaning and linked to cancer have now been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency. (Getty Images ...

EPA late last year finalized rules banning use of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the United States and certain consumer uses of perchloroethylene (PCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Both ...

The federal government, on the verge of banning some uses of a carcinogenic industrial chemical at the close of the Obama administration, has delayed action under President Donald Trump and kept the ...