Safer Chemicals Healthy Families reacts with disappointment and urges immediate action by EPA
Biden administration
New study: More workers than consumers die from methylene chloride; EPA should ban these paint strippers in the workplace
Today’s publication of a peer-reviewed study—Fatalities from methylene chloride exposure in the United States, 1980-2018: A comprehensive case series and policy implications—adds to the strong case for EPA to fully ban the use of paint strippers containing methylene chloride from use in the United States.
Judge throws out Trump EPA’s science-censoring rule
Yesterday, at the Biden EPA’s request, a federal judge vacated a Trump EPA rule that would have weakened the agency’s ability to protect our health. Hundreds of thousands of Americans and hundreds of scientists spoke out against it, and attorneys general for 14 states and six cities took action in opposition.