Ing Toxic-Free Future makabukud ya keng pamaglalang mas masanting a hinaharap kapamilatan ning pamagpromote keng pamangamit kareng mas ligtas a produktu, kemikal ampo gawi kapamilatan ning cutting-edge a pamanyaliksik, adbokasiya, organisasyun ning keraklan ampo pamakiabe kareng mamisali.
WASHINGTON, Distritu ning Columbia. Ngeni, ing EPA Assistant Administrator Michal Friedhoff migmungkahi yang tauling tuntunan para a-manage ing "e makatuliran a panganib" a mayayakit keng EPA's assessment ning methylene chloride lalam ning Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Ing patakaran babawal nala deng sablang mamisali ampo keraklan kareng komersyal ampo industrial a pamangamit ning dichloromethane, maliban kareng mapilan a federal a ahensya ampo manufacturer. Ing mipanukalang tuntunan ya ing kaduang tauling aksyon a mipanukala lalam ning mibayung TSCA para kareng “existing” a kemikal, kaybat ning chrysotile rule ning EPA. Potang mibulalag ne ing patakaran keng Federal Register, magumpisa ne ing 60-aldong panaun ning pamagkomentu.
Ing mipanukalang patakaran babawal na ing ninu mang mamisali ampo keraklan kareng industrial ampo komersyal a pamangamit ning kemikal, kayabe nala reng degreasers, stain removers, ampo paint o coating removers, kayabe da reng aliwa, ampo mitatag yang proteksyun keng obra para kareng adwang time-limited critical use permits. Ing Toxic Free Future tinggap ne ing proposal, inaus ne ing EPA na ayari ne ing patakaran at palawakan ing proteksyun na kareng sablang magobra king lalung malapit a panaun.
"Dakal a pamilya ing dinalan kareng dakal a trahedya pauli na niting kemikal; dakal la reng magobra a meapektuan king panga-expose na kareng karelang pipagobran. Agyang mebigu ya, ing US Environmental Protection Agency mika maragul yang progresu king pamaglako kareng kemikal," sinabi nang Liz. . Hitchcock, direktor ning Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, metung a federal drug-free future policy program. "Halus pitung banua na ing milabas, ing kongresu pepabayu ne ing TSCA para paintulutan ne ing EPA na gawan na ing makanyan a aksyon kareng balu nang panganib a kemikal. Ing patakaran ayni mabawas yang maragul ing pamangamit na niting makalasun a kemikal," ngana pang tinuglung.
"Ing methylene chloride malambat neng menako kareng magobra keng america ing karelang kalusugan, pati na ing pintura ampo reng lubricants. Ing bayung EPA rule pabilisan na ing pamag-asensu da reng mas ligtas a kemikal ampo mas ligtas a gawi na makagawa pa rin keng obra," sinabi nang Charlotte Brody, RN, vice president ning Occupational and Environmental Health, BlueGreen Alliance.
"Limang banua na ing milabas, ing Lowe's meging yang mumunang maragul a retailer a migbawal king pamangamit methylene chloride kareng paint thinners, a meging sangkan ning domino effect kareng pekamaragul a retailer king bangsa," sinabi nang Mike Shade, direktor ning Mind the Store, a ing proyektu na Project Toxic. – Malayang hinaharap. "Masaya kami na ing EPA makipagsaup ya kareng retailers para i-ban ing methylene chloride para kareng mamisali ampo kareng magobra. Iting importanting bayung patakaran makasaup yang proteksyun kareng mamisali ampo kareng magobra keng carcinogenic a kemikal." ampo reng retailer a maki gabay keng pamagsuri kareng panganib da reng alternatibung paralan para makasiguradung deng kumpanya munta la kareng mas ligtas a solusyun.”
"Palakpakan mi ya ining aksyon, na magprotekta kareng tau keng makamate a makalasun a kemikal a ausan dang methylene chloride," sinabi nang Paul Burns, executive director ning Vermont Public Interest Research Group, "pero akilala mi mu rin na masyadu yang makaba at masyadu yang dakal a bie ing mewala. Nanu mang kemikal a magdalang makanining seryusu at mas makabang banta keng kalusugan ning tau e dapat ibili keng palengki."
"Ini metung yang masanting a aldo para kekami para ituru ing pamagbayu keng kekaming regulasyun keng kalusugan ning publiko ampo keng kapaligiran na makaligtas bie, lalu na kareng magobra a makalwal kareng makalasun a kemikal," sinabi nang Cindy Lu, direktor ning Clean Water Action New England. miyembru ampo coalition partners ampo diretsu lang migtestigo para suportan ing operasyun. "Anyaran mi ya ing EPA Biden na isundu ing makanining direktang aksyon para mabawas ing pabayat na ning kalusugan, aiwasan ing pangasira ning kekatamung kalusugan, at ipasyag ing kasalukuyan a siyensya."
Ing dichloromethane, kilala ya naman bilang dichloromethane o DCM, metung yang organohalogen solvent a magagamit kareng paint thinners ampo reng aliwang produktu. Atin yang kaugnayan keng cancer, cognitive impairment, ampo agad a kamatayan kapamilatan ning asphyxiation. King pilatan ning 1985 ampong 2018, ing acute exposure king kemikal a ini ing meging sangkan ning 85 a kamatayan king United States, agpang king metung a peer-reviewed a pamagaral ning UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE).
Manibat 2009, ing Toxic-Free Future ampo reng National Health Advocates magobra la para pasikanan ing proteksyun ning federal laban kareng makalasun a kemikal. Kaybat ning dakal a banuang adbokasiya ning metung a koalisyon a panimunan ning Safe Chemicals for Healthy Families of a Toxic-Free Future Initiative, ing Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act mepirma yang batas inyang 2016, a minie king EPA king kailangang awtoridad para ibawal la reng delikadung kemikal antimo ing methylene chloride. Manibat 2017 anggang 2019, ing Toxic-Free Future's Mind the Store program mika kampanya ya keng mabilug a bangsa a makiabe kareng maigit metung a dosena a mangaragul a retailer kayabe nala reng Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon ampo reng aliwa pa para tuknang ing pamanyali da reng paint ampo coating remover chlorides a maki methylene. keng 2022 ampo 2023, ing Toxin Free Future magdala yang coalition partners para magkomentu, magtestigo ampo makipagkita keng EPA para mag advocate para keng mahigpit a tauling tuntunan.
Ing Toxic-Free Future metung yang pambansang lider keng pamanyaliksik ampo proteksyun keng kapaligiran. Kapamilatan ning upaya ning siyensya, edukasyun ampo aktibismu, ing Toxic Free Futures magpromote yang matibe batas ampo responsibilidad ning korporasyun para protektan ing kalusugan da reng sablang tau ampo ing planeta. www.toxicfreefuture.org
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