title: Chlorinated solvents: will the alternatives be safer?
abstract: Over the next decade, use of chlorinated solvents, a widely employed class of chemicals, will decline significantly because of increasingly stringent environmental regulations. These solvents pose certain health and environmental problems and they have been heavily scrutinized. The alternatives to the solvents are being adopted without controls. In some cases, these substances will pose other health and environmental problems that are likely to be as serious; in other cases, the alternatives have not been examined for their health and environmental effects at all. This case study demonstrates that regulations on chlorinated solvents and their potential alternatives are inconsistent with one another and conflicting.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Research and Technical Assistance, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yazdani
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yates
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000633:toxicity; D012997:Solvents; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D006843:Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated; D012997:Solvents