E whakapau kaha ana a Toxic-Free Future ki te waihanga i tētahi heke mai hauora mā te whakatairanga i te whakamahinga o ngā hua, ngā matū me ngā mahi haumaru ake mā te rangahau matatau, te tautoko, te whakahaere papatipu me te whai wāhi a ngā kaihoko.
WASHINGTON, Takiwā o Columbia. I tēnei rā, i whakaarohia e te Kaiwhakahaere Tuarua o te EPA, a Michal Friedhoff, tētahi ture whakamutunga hei whakahaere i te "mōrearea koretake" i kitea i roto i te aromatawai a te EPA mō te methylene chloride i raro i te Ture Whakahaere Matū Paitini (TSCA). Ka aukatia e te ture ngā whakamahinga katoa o te methylene chloride e ngā kaihoko me te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga arumoni me ngā whakamahinga ahumahi, haunga ētahi tari me ngā kaihanga ā-motu. Ko te ture kua whakaarohia ko te mahi whakamutunga tuarua kua whakaarohia i raro i te TSCA kua whakahoutia mō ngā matū "tēnei", whai muri i te ture chrysotile a te EPA. Kia whakaputaina te ture ki te Federal Register, ka tīmata he wā kōrero 60-rā.
Ka aukatia e te ture kua whakaarohia ngā whakamahinga katoa o te matū ki ngā kaihoko me te nuinga o ngā ahumahi me ngā mahi arumoni, tae atu ki ngā tango hinu, ngā tango paru, me ngā tango peita, paninga rānei, me ētahi atu, ā, ka whakatūria hoki ngā whakaritenga tiaki i te wāhi mahi mō ngā whakaaetanga whakamahinga nui e rua e herea ana te wā. I mihi a Toxic Free Future ki te tono, me te akiaki i te EPA kia whakaoti i te ture me te whakawhānui i tana tiaki ki ngā kaimahi katoa i te wā e taea ai.
"He maha rawa ngā whānau kua pāngia e ngā aituā maha nā tēnei matū; he maha rawa ngā kaimahi kua pāngia e tōna pānga ki ā rātou wāhi mahi. Ahakoa i rahua, kua nui te ahunga whakamua a te Tari Tiaki Taiao o Amerika ki te tango i ngā matū," te kī a Liz. . Ko Hitchcock, te kaiwhakahaere o Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, he kaupapa here ā-motu mō te heke mai kāore he tarukino. "Tata ki te whitu tau ki muri, i whakahoutia e te Runanga te TSCA kia taea ai e te EPA te mahi i aua mahi mō ngā tūponotanga matū e mōhiotia ana. Mā tēnei ture ka tino whakaitihia te whakamahinga o tēnei matū tino paitini," tana haere tonu.
"Kua roa te methylene chloride e pahua ana i te hauora o ngā kaimahi o Amerika, tae atu ki te peita me ngā hinu whakahinuhinu. Mā te ture hou a te EPA e whakateretere te whanaketanga o ngā matū haumaru me ngā mahi haumaru e whakaoti tonu ana i te mahi," te kī a Charlotte Brody, RN, te tumuaki tuarua o te Occupational and Environmental Health, BlueGreen Alliance.
"E rima tau ki muri, ko Lowe's te kaihokohoko nui tuatahi ki te aukati i te whakamahinga o te methylene chloride i roto i ngā whakangawari peita, ka puta he pānga domino i waenga i ngā kaihokohoko nui rawa atu o te motu," te kī a Mike Shade, te kaiwhakahaere o Mind the Store, ko tana kaupapa ko Project Toxic. – Free future. "E harikoa ana mātou kei te mahi tahi te EPA me ngā kaihokohoko ki te aukati i ngā kaihoko me ngā kaimahi ki te whakamahi i te methylene chloride. Ka nui te āwhina o tēnei ture hou nui ki te tiaki i ngā kaihoko me ngā kaimahi mai i tēnei matū e puta ai te mate pukupuku. Ko ngā mahi e whai ake nei mā te EPA ko te whakarato aratohu ki ngā waitohu me ngā kaihokohoko mō te aromatawai i ngā tūponotanga o ngā huarahi kē atu hei whakarite kia neke ngā kamupene ki ngā otinga tino haumaru."
"E mihi ana mātou ki tēnei mahi, e tiaki ai i te tangata mai i tētahi matū whakamate paitini e kiia nei ko te methylene chloride," te kī a Paul Burns, te kaiwhakahaere matua o te Vermont Public Interest Research Group, "engari e whakaae ana hoki mātou he roa rawa te wā i pau ai, ā, he nui rawa ngā oranga i mate ai te tangata. Kaua tetahi matū e tūpono ana ki te hauora o te tangata e tukuna ana ki te mākete tūmatanui."
"He rā nui tēnei mā tātou ki te tohu i ngā huringa ki ā tātou ture hauora tūmatanui me te taiao e whakaora ai i ngā oranga, inā koa i waenga i ngā kaimahi e pāngia ana e ngā matū paitini," te kī a Cindy Lu, te kaiwhakahaere o Clean Water Action New England. I tautokohia e ia ngā mema me ngā hoa mahi o te rōpū, ā, i tautokohia hoki te mahi. "E akiaki ana mātou i a EPA Biden kia haere tonu te mahi tika pēnei hei whakaiti i te taumahatanga ki te hauora, hei ārai i te kino ki tō tātou hauora, me te whakaata i te pūtaiao o nāianei."
Ko te dichloromethane, e mōhiotia ana ko te dichloromethane, ko te DCM rānei, he whakarewa organohalogen e whakamahia ana i roto i ngā whakarewa peita me ētahi atu hua. Kua honoa ki te mate pukupuku, te ngoikore o te hinengaro, me te mate ohorere mā te whakamomori. I waenga i te tau 1985 me te tau 2018, ko te pānga ohorere ki tēnei matū te take o te 85 mate i te United States, e ai ki tētahi rangahau arotake-ā-hoa nā te UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE).
Mai i te tau 2009, kua mahi tahi a Toxic-Free Future me National Health Advocates ki te whakapakari i te tiakitanga ā-motu ki ngā matū paitini. Whai muri i ngā tau o te tautoko a te kotahitanga i arahina e te Safe Chemicals for Healthy Families of a Toxic-Free Future Initiative, i hainatia te Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act hei ture i te tau 2016, e hoatu ana ki te EPA te mana e tika ana ki te aukati i ngā matū kino pēnei i te methylene chloride. Mai i te tau 2017 ki te 2019, i whakahaerehia e te kaupapa Mind the Store a Toxic-Free Future tētahi kaupapa puta noa i te motu i uru atu ai neke atu i te tekau mā rua ngā kaihokohoko nui tae atu ki a Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon me ētahi atu ki te aukati i te hoko o ngā chloride tango peita me te paninga kei roto ko te methylene. I te tau 2022 me te 2023, ka kawea mai e Toxin Free Future ngā hoa mahi tahi ki te tuku kōrero, ki te whakaatu taunakitanga me te tūtaki ki te EPA ki te tautoko i tētahi ture whakamutunga pakari.
He kaiārahi ā-motu a Toxic-Free Future i roto i te rangahau me te tiaki taiao. Mā te mana o te pūtaiao, te mātauranga me te mahi whakaohooho, ka whakatairanga a Toxic Free Futures i ngā ture kaha me te kawenga a te kamupene ki te tiaki i te hauora o te tangata katoa me te ao. www.toxicfreefuture.org
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