Toxic-Free Future yadzipereka pakupanga tsogolo labwino mwa kulimbikitsa kugwiritsa ntchito zinthu zotetezeka, mankhwala ndi machitidwe kudzera mu kafukufuku wamakono, kulimbikitsa, kukonza mabungwe ambiri komanso kutenga nawo mbali kwa ogula.
WASHINGTON, Chigawo cha Columbia. Lero, Wothandizira Woyang'anira wa EPA, Michal Friedhoff, wapereka lamulo lomaliza loyang'anira "chiwopsezo chosafunikira" chomwe chikupezeka mu kuwunika kwa methylene chloride ndi EPA motsatira Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Lamuloli liletsa ogula onse ndi kugwiritsa ntchito methylene chloride m'mabizinesi ndi m'mafakitale ambiri, kupatula mabungwe ena aboma ndi opanga. Lamuloli ndi gawo lachiwiri lomaliza lomwe laperekedwa pansi pa TSCA yosinthidwa ya mankhwala "omwe alipo", motsatira lamulo la chrysotile la EPA. Lamuloli likangosindikizidwa mu Federal Register, nthawi ya masiku 60 yopereka ndemanga idzayamba.
Lamulo lomwe likuperekedwali likuletsa kugwiritsa ntchito mankhwala aliwonse kwa ogula komanso mafakitale ambiri komanso amalonda, kuphatikizapo zochotsa mafuta, zochotsa utoto, ndi zochotsa utoto kapena zokutira, pakati pa zina, ndipo likukhazikitsa zofunikira zotetezera malo ogwirira ntchito kuti pakhale zilolezo ziwiri zogwiritsidwa ntchito nthawi yochepa. Toxic Free Future yalandira lingalirolo, ndikulimbikitsa EPA kuti itsirize lamuloli ndikuwonjezera chitetezo chake kwa ogwira ntchito onse mwachangu momwe zingathere.
"Mabanja ambiri akumana ndi mavuto ambiri chifukwa cha mankhwala awa; antchito ambiri akhudzidwa ndi kupezeka kwake m'malo awo antchito. Ngakhale kuti zalephera, bungwe la US Environmental Protection Agency lapita patsogolo kwambiri pochotsa mankhwalawa," adatero Liz. . Hitchcock, mkulu wa Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, pulogalamu ya boma yokhudza tsogolo lopanda mankhwala osokoneza bongo. "Pafupifupi zaka zisanu ndi ziwiri zapitazo, Congress idasintha TSCA kuti ilole EPA kuchitapo kanthu pa zoopsa za mankhwala zomwe zimadziwika. Lamuloli lidzachepetsa kwambiri kugwiritsa ntchito mankhwala oopsa awa," adatero.
"Methylene chloride yakhala ikubera antchito aku America thanzi lawo kwa nthawi yayitali, komanso utoto ndi mafuta odzola. Lamulo latsopano la EPA lidzathandizira kupita patsogolo kwa mankhwala otetezeka komanso machitidwe otetezeka omwe akupitilizabe kugwira ntchito," adatero Charlotte Brody, RN, wachiwiri kwa purezidenti wa Occupational and Environmental Health, BlueGreen Alliance.
“Zaka zisanu zapitazo, Lowe’s inakhala wogulitsa wamkulu woyamba kuletsa kugwiritsa ntchito methylene chloride mu utoto wothina, zomwe zinayambitsa zotsatira zoyipa pakati pa ogulitsa akuluakulu mdziko muno,” anatero Mike Shade, mkulu wa Mind the Store, yemwe pulojekiti yake ndi Project Toxic. – Free future. “Tikusangalala kuti EPA ikugwira ntchito ndi ogulitsa kuti aletse ogula ndi ogwira ntchito kugwiritsa ntchito methylene chloride. Lamulo latsopano lofunikali lidzathandiza kwambiri kuteteza ogula ndi ogwira ntchito ku mankhwala oyambitsa khansa awa. Njira zotsatirazi za EPA ndikupereka malangizo kwa makampani ndi ogulitsa pakuwunika zoopsa za njira zina kuti atsimikizire kuti makampani akupita ku mayankho otetezeka kwambiri.”
"Tikuyamika izi, zomwe pamapeto pake zidzateteza anthu ku mankhwala oopsa otchedwa methylene chloride," anatero Paul Burns, mkulu wa Vermont Public Interest Research Group, "koma tikuvomerezanso kuti zinatenga nthawi yayitali ndipo zinawononga miyoyo yambiri. Mankhwala aliwonse omwe ali pachiwopsezo chachikulu komanso cha nthawi yayitali pa thanzi la anthu sayenera kuyikidwa pamsika wa anthu onse."
"Lero ndi tsiku labwino kwambiri kuti tisonyeze kusintha kwa malamulo athu azaumoyo ndi zachilengedwe zomwe zidzapulumutsa miyoyo, makamaka pakati pa ogwira ntchito omwe ali ndi mankhwala oopsa," adatero Cindy Lu, mkulu wa Clean Water Action New England. mamembala ndi ogwirizana nawo ndipo adapereka umboni mwachindunji pothandizira ntchitoyi. "Tikulimbikitsa EPA Biden kuti apitirize kuchitapo kanthu mwachindunji kuti achepetse nkhawa pa thanzi, kupewa kuvulaza thanzi lathu, komanso kuwonetsa sayansi yamakono."
Dichloromethane, yomwe imadziwikanso kuti dichloromethane kapena DCM, ndi chosungunulira cha organohalogen chomwe chimagwiritsidwa ntchito mu zotsukira utoto ndi zinthu zina. Chakhala chikugwirizana ndi khansa, kulephera kuzindikira, komanso kufa nthawi yomweyo chifukwa cha kupuma movutikira. Pakati pa 1985 ndi 2018, kukhudzana ndi mankhwala awa mwachangu kunayambitsa imfa 85 ku United States, malinga ndi kafukufuku wowunikidwa ndi anzawo a UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE).
Kuyambira mu 2009, Toxic-Free Future ndi National Health Advocates akhala akugwira ntchito yolimbitsa chitetezo cha boma ku mankhwala oopsa. Pambuyo pa zaka zambiri zolimbikitsa ndi mgwirizano wotsogozedwa ndi Safe Chemicals for Healthy Families of a Toxic-Free Future Initiative, Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act idasainidwa kukhala lamulo mu 2016, kupatsa EPA mphamvu yofunikira yoletsa mankhwala oopsa monga methylene chloride. Kuyambira mu 2017 mpaka 2019, pulogalamu ya Toxic-Free Future's Mind the Store idayendetsa kampeni yapadziko lonse yokhudza ogulitsa akuluakulu oposa khumi ndi awiri kuphatikiza Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon ndi ena kuti aletse kugulitsa ma chloride ochotsa utoto ndi zokutira omwe ali ndi methylene. Mu 2022 ndi 2023, Toxin Free Future idzabweretsa ogwirizana nawo kuti apereke ndemanga, achitire umboni ndikukakumana ndi EPA kuti alimbikitse lamulo lomaliza lokhwima.
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