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Whai muri i te rangahau a te Center for Public Integrity mō ngā matenga o te methylene chloride i roto i ngā tekau tau, i aukatia e te US Environmental Protection Agency i te tau 2019 te hoko o ngā mīhini tango peita kei roto te whakauru ki ngā kaihoko, ā, kei te haere tonu te kaupapa pēhi a te iwi whānui e ngā whanaunga o ngā patunga me ngā kaitautoko haumaru. Kei te mahi te Environmental Protection Agency i ngā mahi.
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Kei te tono nui atu te rōpū whakakotahitanga: e ai ki a rātou, kāore ngā kaimahi e tiakina e ngā here whaiti. Ko te nuinga o ngā mate mai i te pānga o te methylene chloride ka puta i te mahi. Ehara i te mea ko ngā tango peita anake ngā hua ka kitea ai.
Ināianei kei te whakaaro te Tari Tiaki Taiao ki te aukati i te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga o te methylene chloride—kei te whai mana tonu ētahi tūponotanga, engari he iti noa iho.
"He paku ohorere ahau, e mōhio ana koe?" I mate a Drew, te tuakana 31-tau te pakeke o Brian Wynn, i te tau 2017 i a ia e tango ana i te peita mai i te pouaka whakamātao o te kamupene. I te tīmatanga i whakaaro a Wynn ko te mahi a te EPA i te tau 2019 ki ngā kaitā peita "koinei te mea tino tawhiti rawa atu ka taea e mātou te haere - i tūtaki mātou ki te pakitara pereki o ngā kaitautoko me te Runanga i utua hei aukati i ngā tāngata pēnei i a mātou." ā, i whakarite kia puta tuatahi ā rātou hua me te haumaru."
"Mā te ture kua whakaarohia e aukati te whakamahinga o te methylene chloride i roto i ngā hua kaihoko katoa me "te nuinga o ngā tono ahumahi me te arumoni," te kī a te tari i roto i tētahi kōrero i te wiki kua hipa.
I kī te Tari Tiaki Taiao e tūmanako ana rātou ka whai mana te ture i te marama o Ākuhata 2024. Me whai i tētahi tukanga kua whakaritea ngā ture ā-motu hei hoatu i te whai wāhi ki te marea ki te awe i te putanga whakamutunga.
Ko tēnei matū, e mōhiotia ana ko te methylene chloride, ka kitea i runga i ngā whata hokohoko i roto i ngā hua pēnei i ngā mea tango hinu aerosol me ngā mea horoi paraihe e whakamahia ana i roto i ngā peita me ngā paninga. Ka whakamahia i roto i ngā piripiri arumoni me ngā hiri. Ka whakamahia e ngā kaihanga hei hanga i ētahi atu matū.
E ai ki te tari, neke atu i te 85 ngā tāngata kua mate i te tere o te pānga ki te methylene chloride mai i te tau 1980, tae atu ki ngā kaimahi i whiwhi whakangungu haumaru me ngā taputapu tiaki.
I ahu mai tēnei tatauranga i tētahi rangahau i te tau 2021 nā OSHA me te Whare Wānanga o California, San Francisco, i tatau i te maha o ngā mate o nāianei i runga i ngā tatau o mua mō te Public Integrity. He tata koretake noa iho tēnei tatauranga nā te mea ko tētahi o ngā huarahi e patu ai te methylene chloride i te tangata ko te whakaputa i te mate manawa, e rite ana ki te mate taiao ki te hunga mātakitaki mēnā kāore e pai ki te mahi i ngā rangahau paitini.
Kei te mahi a Nate Bradford Jr. ki te tiaki i ngā oranga ahuwhenua o ngā tāngata mangu. Kei roto i tēnei wāhanga o Heist tana pakanga mō te oranga tonutanga i te hītori o te kāwanatanga mō te whakahāwea i ngā kaimahi whenua mangu. Ohauru ki te whiwhi i ngā mōhiohio kei muri i te whakaaturanga me ngā whakamōhiotanga ina tukuna ngā wāhanga hou.
E ai ki te Tari Tiaki Taiao (EPA), kua pāngia hoki te hunga e pāngia ana e te matū e "ngā pānga kino ki te hauora mō te wā roa" pērā i te mate pukupuku, engari kāore i te tino mate.
"E mōhiotia whānuitia ana ngā tūponotanga o te methylene chloride," te tuhituhi a te tari i roto i te ture kua whakaritea.
I kitea i roto i tētahi rangahau a te Public Integrity i te tau 2015, kua maha ngā wā i ngaro ai ngā whai wāhitanga mō te wawaotanga whakaora ora mai i te tekau tau atu i 1970. Heoi, i puta ake ētahi atu mate i muri i te whakaaro tuatahi a te Environmental Protection Agency i te ture i te marama o Hānuere 2017, i te mutunga o te whakahaerenga a Obama, ā, i whakaroa te whakahaerenga a Trump i te whakaaro tae noa ki te wā i akiakihia ai kia mahi.
Ko Liz Hitchcock, te kaiwhakahaere o Safer Chemicals for Healthier Families, he kaupapa here ā-motu mō te heke mai kore paitini, kei roto i te hunga kua mahi mō ngā tau ki te whakamutu i te parekura i puta mai i te methylene chloride. I mihi ia ki te panuitanga o te aukati kua whakaarohia hei "rā nui".
"Kei te mate anō te tangata i te whakamahi i ēnei matū," tana kī. "Ina whakamahia ēnei matū e te tangata, ka pāngia te hunga e tata ana e te mate, ā, ka pāngia hoki te tangata e ngā mate pūmau nā te whakamahinga o ēnei matū. E hiahia ana mātou kia tiakina te tokomaha o te tangata."
Engari i harikoa ia i te rongonga e whakapono ana te Tari Tiaki Taiao kāore te ture e whakamanahia mō ētahi atu marama 15.
Ko Lauren Atkins, i mate tana tama 31-tau te pakeke a Joshua i te tau 2018 i muri i te whakamahi i te mīhini tango peita hei peita i tana pahikara BMX, kei te āwangawanga ia kāore e aukatia te whakamahinga o taua mea. I tino pouri ia i te kitenga i ēnei kōhao i roto i te pānuitanga.
"I tata peke atu ahau i ōku hu tae noa ki te mutunga o te pukapuka katoa, kātahi ka tino pouri ahau," te kī a Atkins. I muri i te matenga o tana tama, ko tana whāinga he tango i te methylene chloride mai i te mākete kia kore ai e mate tetahi atu. "I ngaro taku tama, engari i ngaro katoa i taku tama."
I kī te Tari Tiaki Taiao kāore te whakamahinga o te matū i roto i te hanga rongoā i raro i te Ture Whakahaere Matū Paitini, nō reira kāore i te aukatia e ngā ture kua whakaritea. I kī te tari ko ngā kaimahi e whakamahi tonu ana i te methylene chloride i roto i ētahi atu mahi e whakaaetia ana i raro i te tono ka tiakina e te "Kaupapa Whakahaere Matū Mahi me ngā Herenga Whakamārama Tino". Ka mate pea te methylene chloride ina kohia ngā kohu i roto i ngā wāhi kua kati.
Ka noho tonu ētahi whakamahinga nui i roto i ēnei whakawāteatanga, tae atu ki ngā mahi "tino nui" me ngā mahi "haumaru-tino nui" a te ope taua, a te NASA, te Federal Aviation Administration, me ā rātou kaimahi kirimana; te whakamahinga i roto i ngā taiwhanga; te US me ngā kamupene e whakamahi ana hei matū, e whakaputa ana rānei mō ngā kaupapa kua whakaaetia, e ai ki te Environmental Protection Agency.
Haunga ngā tari kāwanatanga, kāore e kitea te methylene chloride i roto i ngā mīhini tango peita. He hua tēnei e mate ai ngā kaimahi e whakahou ana i ngā kaukau tawhito i roto i ngā kāinga me ngā whare noho.
Ā, kāore e whakaaetia te whakamahi i te methylene chloride mō te tango hinu i te mamaoa arumoni me te ahumahi, te tango piripiri, te whakaoti kakahu, ngā hinu whakahinuhinu wai, ngā kāpia hākinakina me te maha atu o ngā whakamahinga.
"I tēnei wā, tata ki te 845,000 tāngata e pāngia ana e te methylene chloride i te wāhi mahi," te kī a te Environmental Protection Agency i roto i tētahi kōrero. "I raro i te tono a te EPA, e tika ana kia iti iho i te 10,000 ngā kaimahi ka whakamahi tonu i te methylene chloride me te whai i ngā kaupapa tiaki matū e hiahiatia ana i te wāhi mahi mai i ngā mōrearea Kāore i te Tika."
Kua tekau tau a Tākuta Robert Harrison, he ahorangi haumanu mō te rongoā mahi me te taiao i Te Whare Wānanga o California, San Francisco, e mahi ana i te methylene chloride. I mea ia kei te whai te Tari Tiaki Taiao i te whakaaro kia taurite te haumaru me ngā āwangawanga ōhanga me te haumarutanga ā-motu, ā, i kitea e ia he whakatenatena te whānuitanga o te aukati.
"Ki taku whakaaro he wikitoria tēnei. He wikitoria tēnei mā ngā kaimahi," te kī a Harrison, i uru atu ki tētahi rangahau i te tau 2021 mō ngā matenga e pā ana ki ngā matū. "He tauira pai rawa atu tēnei mō te whakatau kaupapa me te whakatū mātāpono i runga i te pūtaiao mārama... Me whakakore haere i ēnei matū paitini hei whakakapi i ngā huarahi haumaru ake e nui ake ai te kino i te pai."
Tērā pea koe e whakaaro ana kāore e tika ana kia hokona ngā matū ki te mākete mēnā kāore i kitea he haumaru. Engari ehara tēnā i te pūnaha o Amerika.
Nā ngā āwangawanga mō te haumaru o ngā matū i akiaki te Runanga ki te whakamana i te Ture Whakahaere Matū Paitini i te tau 1976, i whakatakoto i ētahi whakaritenga mō ngā matū. Engari e kitea whānuitia ana ngā mahi he ngoikore, ā, kāore he mana o te Tari Tiaki Taiao ki te whakahaere i ngā aromatawai haumaru whānui. E whakarārangihia ana e te Federal Inventory, i whakaputaina i te tau 1982, tata ki te 62,000 ngā matū, ā, kei te piki haere tonu taua tau.
I te tau 2016, i whakatikatikaina e te Runanga te TSCA kia whakamanahia ai te Tari Tiaki Taiao ki te whakahaere i ngā aromatawai mōrearea matū. Ko te Methylene chloride te raru tuatahi i arohia e te tari.
"Koia mātou e ngana ana ki te whakahou i te TSCA," te kī a Hitchcock, nāna i whakapuaki ki ngā tari paremata ngā rangahau mō te pono o te iwi i taua wā hei tauira pai o te kore mahi kino.
Ko te taahiraa e whai ake nei i roto i te aukati i te methylene chloride kua whakaarohia ko te wā tuku kōrero a te marea mō ngā rā 60. Ka taea e te iwi te whakapuaki i ō rātou whakaaro mō te kaupapa a te EPA, ā, kei te tautoko ngā kaitautoko haumaru i tēnei take.
"He taahiraa nui tēnei ki mua mō te hauora tūmatanui, engari kāore e kore he ngoikoretanga," te kī a Hitchcock. I hiahia ia kia kite i ngā kōrero "e karanga ana ki te Tari Tiaki Taiao kia whakatinana i ngā ture kaha rawa atu."
I kī a Harrison i tētahi wā, he tino puhoi te whanaketanga o ngā ture matū i te Hononga o Amerika tae noa ki te tīmatanga o te taupokina e ngā awaawa hukapapa. Engari e kite ana ia i te ahunga whakamua mai i ngā whakatikatika a te TSCA i te tau 2016. Nā te ture hou mō te methylene chloride i homai he tumanako ki a ia.
"He maha atu anō ngā matū ka whai ake i te whakataunga a te US mō te methylene chloride," tana kī.
Kāore he ārai utu mō Public Integrity, ā, kāore hoki e whakaaetia he pānuitanga, nō reira ka taea e tā mātou mahi nūpepa tirotiro te whai pānga whānui ki te whakaoti rapanga i te kore taurite i Amerika. Ka taea ā mātou mahi nā te tautoko a te hunga pēnei i a koutou.
He ētita, he kairīpoata matua hoki a Jamie Smith Hopkins mō te Center for Public Integrity. Kei roto i āna mahi ētahi atu mahi a Jamie Smith Hopkins.
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