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WASHINGTON, District of Columbia. Mazubaano, Mugwasyilizyi wa Mweendelezi wa EPA Michal Friedhoff wakabikka mulawu wamamanino wakulanganya "ntenda iitali kabotu" yakajanwa mukulanga-langa kwa EPA kwa methylene chloride kunsi aa Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). mulawu ooyu ulakonzya kukasya basikuula boonse akubelesya methylene chloride mumakwebo amumakkampani, kunze lyamabambe amwi aabasikupanga. mulawu ooyu uuyeeyelwa ngo wabili wamamanino uuyeeyelwa kunsi aa TSCA yakabambululwa yamakemikalu "aliwo", kutobela mulawu wa EPA wa chrysotile. Mulawu nuuzwa mu Federal Register, mazuba aali 60 aakupa mizeezo ayootalika.
mulawu ooyu uuyeeyelwa ukasya kufumbwa muntu uubelesya misamu eeyi, kubikkilizya akugwisya mafuta, kugwisya mabala, akugwisya penti naa zyakuvwumbilila, azimwi, mpawo ubikka zyeelelo zyakukwabilila kubusena bwakubelekela kwachiindi chilamfu. Toxic Free Future yakatambula muzeezo ooyu, akukulwaizya EPA kuti imanizye mulawu ooyu akuyungizya lukwabililo lwayo kulibabelesi boonse mbuli mbukonzeka.
"Mikwasyi myiingi yakainda mumapenzi manji akaambo kamakemikalu aaya; babelesi biingi bakajatikizyigwa akaambo kakujanika kwawo mumasena mobabelekela. Nikuba kuti yakaalilwa, US Environmental Protection Agency yakachita kuyaambele kupati mukugwisya makemikalu aaya," Liz wakaamba. . Hitchcock, mweendelezi wa Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, pulogilamu yamilawu yakumbele iitakwe misamu iikola. "Aafwaafwi amyaka iili musanu ababili yainda, Nkuta Mpati yakabambulula TSCA kuti izumizye EPA kuti ibweze ntaamu ziliboobu kujatikizya ntenda zyamakemikalu zizyibidwe. Ooyu mulawu uyoocheesya kubelesya makemikalu aaya aakola loko," wakayinkila kunembo.
"Methylene chloride yakabbida buumi bwababelesi baku Amelika, antoomwe a penti amafuta. Mulawu mupya wa EPA uyoofwambaanya kuyaambele kwamakemikalu aatakwe ntenda anzila zikwabilidwe eezyo zizumanana kuchita mulimu," wakaamba Charlotte Brody, RN, mubetesi wabili wa Occupational and Environmental Health, BlueGreen Alliance.
"Myaka yosanwe yainda, Lowe's wakaba sikusambala mupati wakusaanguna kukasya kubelesya methylene chloride muzintu zipa penti, eezi zyakapa kuti kube bbivwe akati kabasambazi bapati bamucisi," wakaamba Mike Shade, mweendelezi wa Mind the Store, walo mulimo wakwe ngu Project Toxic. – Kumbele kwaangulukide. "Tulikkomene kuti EPA yamana kubeleka abasambazi kukasya basikuula ababelesi kubelesya musamu wa methylene chloride. Ooyu mulawu mupya uuyandika kapati uyoogwasya kapati mukukwabilila basikuula ababelesi kuzwa kumusamu ooyu uuleta kkansa. Ntaamu zitobela zya EPA zyakupa busolozi kuli basimakwebo abasikuuzya kujatikizya nzila zimbi zikonzya kubelesegwa kutegwa kube kukwabililwa kwamakkampani nzila zyakumanizya mapenzi.”
"Tulalumbaizya mulimo ooyu, ooyo uuyookwabilila bantu kuzwa kumusamu uujaya uutegwa methylene chloride," wakaamba Paul Burns, mweendelezi wa Vermont Public Interest Research Group, "pele alimwi tulazumina kuti wakatola chiindi chilamfu mpawo wakajaya bantu banji. Kufumbwa musamu uukonzya kuleta ntenda mpati loko kubuumi bwabantu teelede kubikkwa mumusika."
"Oobu mbuzuba bupati kulindiswe kutondezya kuchincha kwamilawu yesu yabuumi bwabantu boonse azyabusena eezyo ziyoofwutula maumi, ikapati akati kababelesi babelesya misamu iikola," wakaamba Cindy Lu, mupati wa Clean Water Action New England. mpango ababelesinyina mpawo bakapa bumboni bwakugwasyilizya mulimo ooyu. "Tusungwaazya EPA Biden kuti izumanane kuchita zintu ziliboobu kuchitila kuti kutabi ntenda zyabuumi, kutabilila ntenda kubuumi bwesu, akutondezya sayaansi yamazubaano."
Dichloromethane, alimwi wiitwa kuti dichloromethane naa DCM, nchintu chibelesyegwa mukupanga penti azintu zimwi. Zyakaswaangene a kkansa, kutabeleka kabotu kwakuyeeya, alufu lwakufwambaana akaambo kakubula nguzu zyakuyoya. Akati ka 1985 a 2018, kujatikizigwa kapati amusamu ooyu kwakapa kuti bantu bali 85 bafwe mu United States, kweendelanya abuvwuntauzi bwakacitwa a UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE).
Kuzwa mu 2009, Toxic-Free Future a National Health Advocates balikubeleka kuyumya lukwabililo lwamfulumende kuzwa kumakemikalu aakola. Nikwakainda myaaka myiingi yakugwasyilizya kabunga kasololelwa a Safe Chemicals for Healthy Families of a Toxic-Free Future Initiative, mulawu wa Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act wakasainwa kuba mulawu mu 2016, kupa EPA nguzu zyeelede zyakukasya misamu iikola mbuli methylene chloride. Kuzwa mu 2017 kusikila mu 2019, pulogilamu ya Toxic-Free Future's Mind the Store yakachita mulimo wakukambauka muchisi choonse wakajatikizya basambazi bapati bainda kukkumi ababili kubikkilizya a Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon abamwi kuti balesye kusambalwa kwama chlorides aakugwisya penti aamabwe aajisi methylene. Mu 2022 a 2023, Toxin Free Future iyooleta beenzinyina kuti baambe, bape bumboni akuswaangana a EPA kuti bagwasyilizye mulawu wamamanino uusimide.
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