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Court rejects petition to protect workers from dangerous chemical in paint strippers

Safer Chemicals Healthy Families reacts with disappointment and urges immediate action by EPA

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: EPA, methylene chloride, paint stripper, paint removal, 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.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Environmental Protection Agency, methylene chloride, paint stripper, Biden administration

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The first 3 things Biden’s EPA must do to protect Americans from toxic chemicals

It was encouraging to see that one of President Biden’s first executive orders directed EPA to review a number of TSCA-related actions by the Trump EPA. While the Biden administration has much to do to right the ship, here are three items we are glad to see on their “Build Back Better” list…

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Public Health Association, EPA, Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, PBTs, TSCA, DecaBDE, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, methylene chloride, paint stripper, Pentachlorothiophenol (PCTP), Trump administration, Biden administration, HCBD, PIP (3:1), 2, 4, 6-TTBP

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