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.
I te marama o Āperira 2023, i whakaarohia e te EPA he aukati i te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga o te methylene chloride. 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 tiakitanga ki ngā kaimahi katoa i te wā e taea ai. atu anō.
Ko te Dichloromethane (e mōhiotia ana ko te dichloromethane, ko te DCM rānei) he whakarewa organohalogen e whakamahia ana i roto i ngā tango peita, paninga rānei, me ētahi atu hua pēnei i ngā tango hinu me ngā tango paru. Ina nui haere ngā paoa methylene chloride, ka taea e tēnei matū te whakapōrearea me te whakaeke ngakau. Kua pā tēnei ki te tini o te tangata kua whakamahi i ngā tango peita me ngā paninga kei roto tēnei matū, tae atu ki a Kevin Hartley rāua ko Joshua Atkins. Kāore anō kia mate tētahi o te whānau i te mate o tēnei matū.
I te tau 2017, i whakaarohia e te US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) te aukati i te whakamahinga o te dichloromethane mō ngā mīhini tango peita (mō te whakamahinga a te kaihoko me te whakamahinga arumoni). I muri mai i taua tau, ko te methylene chloride tētahi o ngā matū tekau "kei te wātea" tuatahi i tīmatahia e te EPA ki te whakahaere i tētahi aromatawai mōrearea hei ako i ngā whakamahinga katoa o te matū.
Nā te kaupapa Toxic-Free Future i whakatenatena te neke atu i te tekau mā rua o ngā kaihokohoko, tae atu ki a Lowe's, The Home Depot me Walmart, kia mutu te hoko i ngā tango peita kei roto te matū. Whai muri i te hui ki ngā whānau o te hunga i mate i te pānga kino ki te matū, i aukatia e te EPA tōna whakamahinga i roto i ngā hua kaihoko i te tau 2019, engari i whakaaetia te whakamahi tonu i te wāhi mahi, he rerekē te āhua o te mate i te whakamahinga kāinga. Inaa, o ngā mate 85 i pūrongohia mai i te pānga i waenga i te tau 1985 me te 2018, ko te pānga mahi te take o te 75% o ngā mate.
I te tau 2020 me te tau 2022, i tukuna e te EPA ngā aromatawai mōrearea e whakaatu ana ko te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga o te methylene chloride he "mōrearea koretake o te kino ki te hauora, ki te taiao rānei." I te tau 2023, kei te whakaaro te EPA ki te aukati i ngā whakamahinga katoa a te kaihoko me te nuinga o ngā whakamahinga ahumahi me te arumoni o te matū, me ngā whakaritenga tiaki i te wāhi mahi e hiahia ana kia whakawāteatia te whakamahinga nui me te wā poto me ngā whakawāteatanga nui mai i ētahi tari ā-motu.