Cleaners told to `green' up their act

"The Environmental Protection Agency, more accustomed to going after large-scale polluters like smoke-belching factories, is cracking down on neighborhood mom-and-pop dry cleaners, forcing them to switch to greener cleaning agents instead of relying on a powerful stain remover linked to various health risks, including cancer....

The new EPA rules target cleaners that use older equipment or operate in a residential building. Blake said the impact on cleaners in the Commonwealth was likely to be ``severe" because of the size of Boston's urban areas, where dry cleaners tend to be located in residential buildings."

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