Ka mahi a Toxic-Free Futures ki te whakatairanga i te whakamahinga o ngā hua, ngā matū me ngā mahi haumaru ake mō tētahi heke mai hauora mā roto i ngā rangahau matatau, te tautoko, te whakarite i te iwi whānui me te whai wāhi mai o ngā kaihoko.
WASHINGTON, DC – I tēnei rā, i whakaarohia e te Kaiwhakahaere Tuarua o te EPA, a Michael Friedhoff, tētahi ture whakamutunga hei whakahaere i ngā "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). Mā tēnei ture ka aukati i ngā whakamahinga katoa a te kaihoko me te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga arumoni me te ahumahi o te methylene chloride, engari mō ētahi tari me ngā kaihanga ā-motu. Ko te ture kua whakaarohia ko te mahi whakamutunga tuarua kua whakaarohia mō tētahi matū "kei te wātea" i raro i te TSCA kua whakahoutia, whai muri i te ture asbestos chrysotile a te EPA. Ka tīmata te wā kōrero 60-rā i muri i te tānga o te ture ki te Federal Register.
Ka āraia e te ture kua whakaarohia ngā whakamahinga katoa a ngā kaihoko me te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga ahumahi me ngā whakamahinga arumoni o ngā matū, tae atu ki ngā tango hinu, ngā tango paru, me ngā tango peita me te paninga, ā, e rua ngā whakawāteatanga wā-poto mō ngā whakamahinga nui hei whakatutuki i ngā whakaritenga tiaki i te wāhi mahi. I mihi a Toxic-Free Futures ki te tono me te karanga ki te Tari Tiaki Taiao kia tere te mahi ki te whakaoti i te ture me te whakawhānui i ana tiakitanga ki ngā kaimahi katoa.
"He tini rawa ngā whānau kua pāngia e te aituā nui i tēnei matū; he tini rawa ngā mahi kua pāngia e ia. Ahakoa kāore ngā ture a te EPA i te angitu, he nui te ahunga whakamua ki te whakakore i te methylene chloride mai i ngā wāhi mahi me ngā kāinga. He nui ngā ahunga whakamua kua puta," te kī a Liz Hitchcock, te kaiwhakahaere o Safe Chemicals for Healthy Families i te Toxic Future Policy Initiative ā-motu. "Tata ki te whitu tau ki muri, i whakahoutia e te Runanga te TSCA kia whakaaetia ai te EPA ki te mahi i ēnei mahi mō ngā tūponotanga matū e mōhiotia ana. Mā tēnei ture ka tino whakaitihia te whakamahinga o tēnei matū tino paitini," tana kōrero tonu.
"Mō te wā roa rawa, kua pahuatia e te methylene chloride te hauora o ngā kaimahi o Amerika, ā, kua pahuatia hoki ā rātou peita me te hinu. Mā te ture hou a te EPA ka tere ake te whanaketanga o ngā matū haumaru me ngā mahi haumaru i te wā e oti ai te mahi," te kōrero a Charlotte ki te Blue-Green Alliance. Ko Brody, te Tumuaki Tuarua o te Hauora Mahi me te Taiao.
"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 tango peita, ka tīmata he pānga domino i waenga i ngā kaihokohoko nui rawa atu o te motu," te kī a Mike, te kaiwhakahaere o Mind the Store, he kaupapa hua kore-paitini. "Kei te harikoa mātou kua uru atu te Tari Tiaki Taiao ki ngā kaihokohoko ki te aukati i te wātea o te methylene chloride ki ngā kaihoko me ngā kaimahi. Ka nui te āwhina o tēnei ture hou nui ki te tiaki i ngā kaihoko me ngā kaimahi mai i te pānga ki tēnei matū e puta ai te mate pukupuku. Ko te mahi a te Tari 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 pakihi ki ngā otinga tino haumaru."
"E whakanui ana mātou i tēnei mahi hei tiaki i te iwi mai i te matū whakamate kino e kiia nei ko te methylene chloride," te kī a Paul Burns, te kaiwhakahaere matua o te Vermont Public Interest Research Group. "Engari e mōhio ana hoki mātou kua roa rawa te wā e pau ana, ā, he maha ngā oranga kua mate." Kaua tetahi matū e tū hei mōrearea nui, mō te wā roa hoki ki te hauora o te tangata e hokona ki te mākete tuwhera."
"He rā nui tēnei e taea ai e tātou te tohu i ngā panonitanga o ngā ture hauora tūmatanui me te taiao e tino whakaora ana i ngā oranga, inā koa mō ngā kaimahi e pāngia ana e ngā matū paitini," te kī a Cindy Luppi, te kaiwhakahaere o te New England Clean Water Initiative. "Kua whakaohokia e te whakahaere ōna mema me ngā hoa mahi tahi, ā, kua whakaatu tika i te tautoko i tēnei mahi. "E akiaki ana mātou i te EPA a Biden kia haere tonu te mahi i tēnei momo mahi tika hei whakaiti i ngā taumahatanga hauora, hei ārai i te kino ki tō tātou hauora, me te whakaata i te pūtaiao hou"
Ko te Methylene chloride, e mōhiotia ana ko te methylene chloride, ko te DCM rānei, he whakarewa organohalogen e whakamahia ana i roto i ngā tango peita me ētahi atu hua. E pā ana tēnei ki te mate pukupuku, te ngoikore o te hinengaro me te mate tonu mai i te whakamomori. E ai ki tētahi rangahau arotake-ā-hoa mai i te Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) i te Whare Wānanga o California, San Francisco, nā te pānga ohorere ki te matū i mate ai te 85 i te United States i waenga i te tau 1985 me te tau 2018.
Mai i te tau 2009, kua mahi tahi a Toxic Futures me ngā kaitautoko hauora puta noa i te motu ki te whakapakari i ngā parenga ā-motu ki ngā matū paitini. Whai muri i ngā tau o te tautoko a te kotahitanga i arahina e te kaupapa Safe Chemicals, Healthy Families a Toxics Free Future, i hainatia te Ture Haumaru Matū Lautenberg hei ture i te tau 2016, e hoatu ana ki te Tari Tiaki Taiao 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 arahina e te kaupapa Mind the Store a Toxic-Free Future tētahi kaupapa ā-motu hei whakarite i tētahi whakapaunga mai i te neke atu i te tekau mā rua ngā kaihokohoko nui, tae atu ki a Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon me ētahi atu, kia mutu te hoko peita me ngā paninga kei roto te tango methylene. Chloride. I te tau 2022 me te 2023, i akiaki a Toxic-Free Futures i ngā hoa mahi tahi ki te tuku kōrero, ki te whakaatu taunakitanga, me te hui tahi me te EPA ki te tautoko i ngā ture whakamutunga kaha.
He kaiārahi ā-motu a Toxic-Free Futures i roto i te rangahau me te tautoko i te hauora taiao. Mā te mana o te pūtaiao, te mātauranga me te mahi whakaohooho, ka whakatairanga a Toxic-Free Futures i te kawenga ture me te kawenga pakihi kaha ki te tiaki i te hauora o te tangata katoa me te ao. www.tokenfreefuture.org
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