E whakapau kaha ana a Toxic-Free Future ki te waihanga i tētahi heke mai hauora mā te whakatenatena 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 mai o ngā kaihoko.
Mai i te tekau tau atu i 1980, kua honoa te pānga o te methylene chloride ki te matenga o te tini o ngā kaihoko me ngā kaimahi. He matū e whakamahia ana i roto i ngā whakangawari peita me ētahi atu hua e mate wawe ai i te hauā me ngā whakaeke ngakau, ā, kua honoa hoki ki te mate pukupuku me te ngoikore o te hinengaro.
Nā te pānuitanga a te EPA i te wiki kua taha ake nei kia aukatia te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga o te methylene chloride, ka homai te tumanako ki a tātou kāore he tangata kē atu e mate i tēnei matū whakamate.
Mā te ture kua whakaarohia e aukati te whakamahinga o te matū ki ngā kaihoko me te nuinga o ngā ahumahi me ngā arumoni, tae atu ki ngā tango hinu, ngā tango paru, me ngā tango peita, paninga rānei, me ētahi atu.
Kei roto hoki i tēnei ko ngā whakaritenga tiaki i te wāhi mahi mō ngā whakaaetanga whakamahinga nui kua herea te wā, me ngā whakawāteatanga nui mō te Tari Tiaki o Amerika, te Whakahaere Rererangi ā-Motu, te Tari Haumarutanga Whenua, me te NASA. Hei whakawāteatanga, kei te tuku te EPA i "ngā kaupapa tiaki matū i te wāhi mahi me ngā herenga pānga pakari hei tiaki pai ake i ngā kaimahi." Arā, ka tangohia e te ture ngā matū tino paitini mai i ngā whata toa me te nuinga o ngā wāhi mahi.
Heoi anō, kāore rawa te aukati i te dichloromethane i puta i raro i te Ture Whakahaere Matū Paitini (TSCA) o te tau 1976, he whakahoutanga kua roa e mahi ana tā mātou rōpū, he mahi nui tēnā.
He puhoi tonu te tere o ngā mahi a te kāwanatanga mō ngā paitini. Kāore i āwhina i te mea i te marama o Hānuere 2017, i te wā i whai mana ai ngā whakahoutanga a te TSCA, i tangohia e te kaiārahi o te EPA tētahi tūnga whakahē-ture. Nō reira, anei tātou, tata ki te whitu tau i muri i te hainatanga o ngā ture kua whakahoutia, ā, koinei anake te tuarua o ngā wā kua whakaarohia e te EPA he mahi ki ngā matū "kei te wātea" i raro i tana mana.
He taahiraa nui tēnei ki mua i te tiaki i te hauora o te marea mai i ngā matū paitini. Ko te rārangi wā o ngā mahi tae noa ki tēnei rā e whakaatu ana i ngā tau maha o te mahi nui kia tae atu ai ki tēnei taumata.
Ehara i te mea miharo, kei runga te methylene chloride i te rārangi "Top 10" a te EPA o ngā matū i arotakengia, i whakahaeretia hoki e te TSCA kua whakahoutia. I te tau 1976, e toru ngā mate i pā ki te pānga ohorere ki te matū, ā, i hiahiatia ai e te EPA kia aukati i tōna whakamahinga i roto i ngā tango peita.
Kua roa kē te EPA e whakaatu ana i ngā taunakitanga nui mō ngā tūponotanga o tēnei matū i mua noa atu i te tau 2016 – ina hoki, nā ngā taunakitanga o nāianei i akiaki te kaiwhakahaere o taua wā a Gina McCarthy ki te whakamahi i ngā mana o te EPA i raro i te TSCA kua whakahoutia mā te whakaaro i te mutunga o te tau 2016 kua aukatia ngā tikanga hei tango i ngā peita me ngā paninga kei roto te methylene chloride mō ngā kaihoko me te wāhi mahi. .
I harikoa rawa atu ā mātou kaiwhakahau me ngā hoa mahi tahi ki te whakapuaki i te maha o ngā mano tini o ngā kōrero i riro mai i te EPA hei tautoko i te aukati. Kei te harikoa ngā hoa mahi ā-motu ki te whakauru atu ki tā mātou kaupapa hei whakatenatena i ngā kaihokohoko pēnei i a Lowe's me The Home Depot kia mutu te hoko i ēnei hua i mua i te whakamanatanga katoa o te aukati.
Engari, kua whakakorehia e te Tari Tiaki Taiao, e Scott Pruitt te kaiārahi, ngā ture, ā, kua whakaroa hoki i te mahi ki tētahi aromatawai matū whānui.
I te riri nui mō te kore mahi a te EPA, ka haere ngā whānau o ngā taiohi i mate i te kai i aua hua ki Washington ki te tūtaki ki ngā āpiha o te EPA me ngā mema o te Runanga ki te whakaako i te iwi mō ngā tūponotanga tūturu o te methylene chloride. Kua uru mai ētahi o rātou ki a mātou me ō mātou hoa mahi tahi ki te whakawakia te EPA mō ētahi atu tiakitanga.
I te tau 2019, i te wā i panuitia ai e te Kaiwhakahaere EPA a Andrew Wheeler te aukati i ngā hoko ki ngā kaihoko, i kite mātou ahakoa i rongonui te nekehanga, i whakararu tonu i ngā kaimahi.
I uru mai te whaea o ngā taiohi tokorua i mate, me ō mātou hoa PIRG o Vermont ki tētahi kēhi kōti ā-motu e rapu ana i ngā parenga rite tonu mō ngā kaimahi e tukuna ana e te EPA ki ngā kaihoko. (Nā te mea ehara i te mea motuhake tā mātou kēhi, kua uru mai te kōti ki ngā pitihana mai i te NRDC, te Kaunihera Mahi o Amerika Latina, me te Rōpū Kaihanga Whakarewa Halogenated. E kī ana te mea whakamutunga kaua te EPA e aukati i te whakamahinga a te kaihoko.) Ahakoa i whakakahoretia e te kaiwhakawā te whakaaro a te rōpū hokohoko ahumahi ki te whakakore i te ture tiaki kaihoko, e tino pouri ana mātou i te tau 2021 i whakakahore te kōti ki te tono i te EPA kia aukati i ngā whakamahinga arumoni i whakaatu i tēnei matū kino ki ngā kaimahi.
I a te EPA e arotake tonu ana i ngā mōrearea e pā ana ki te methylene chloride, kei te tohe tonu mātou kia tiakina ngā whakamahinga katoa o tēnei matū. I tino whakamarietia te wā i tukuna ai e te EPA tana aromatawai mōrearea i te tau 2020, ā, i whakatauhia e 47 o roto i te 53 tono he "mōrearea koretake." He mea whakatenatena ake, kua arotakehia anō e te kāwanatanga hou kāore e tika kia whakaarohia ngā PPE hei huarahi tiaki i ngā kaimahi, ā, i kitea ko ngā whakamahinga 53 katoa engari kotahi te mea he mōrearea koretake.
He maha ā mātou hui ki te EPA me ngā āpiha o te Whare White, nā rātou i whakawhanake ngā aromatawai mōrearea me ngā kaupapa here, i tuku taunakitanga arohaehae ki te Komiti Tohutohu Pūtaiao a te EPA, ā, i kōrero i ngā kōrero mō te hunga kāore i tae atu.
Kāore anō kia oti – kia whakaputaina he ture ki te Federal Register, ka 60 ngā rā e pau ana mō te wā tuku kōrero, ā, muri iho ka tātarihia ngā kōrero e ngā tari kāwanatanga i mua i te waiho hei putanga whakamutunga.
Ka akiaki mātou i te EPA kia tere te whakaputa i tētahi ture pakari hei tiaki i ngā kaimahi katoa, ngā kaihoko me ngā hapori. Tena koa homai ō whakaaro i a koe e tuku kōrero ana mā roto i tā mātou petihana ipurangi.