paint stripper

Consumer sales of deadly paint strippers banned but Americans still at risk

Consumers and workers still exposed to methylene chloride from many other uses

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency releases draft methylene chloride risk evaluation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft methylene chloride risk evaluation that addresses commercial paint stripper uses. In January 2017, EPA proposed to ban commercial paint stripper uses, but it later removed these uses from its March 2019 final rule, leaving workers unprotected from harm.

How are big retailers implementing bans on toxic paint strippers?

Over the past year, our Mind the Store campaign and coalition partners at NRDC won commitments from 13 top home improvement, big box, and auto-parts retailers to ban the sale of paint removal products containing the hazardous chemicals methylene chloride and NMP at over 30,000 stores across North America and the world.