Agency announces rule on methylene chloride, colorless liquid used for stripping paint, cleaning metal and decaffeinating coffee The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Tuesday that it ...
techtimes: EPA Bans Household Use Of Toxic Paint Stripping Chemical Methylene Chloride
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Thursday that it won’t reverse an Obama administration report that enumerated various harms from exposure to paint-stripping chemical methylene chloride.
A proposed federal ban on a potentially deadly chemical found in common paint strippers may be on hold indefinitely. The EPA says methylene chloride poses an unreasonable risk and the chemical has ...
WASHINGTON — Lowe’s, the large home improvement retailer, announced Tuesday that it would no longer sell paint strippers that contain the chemicals methylene chloride and NMP, which have been blamed ...
UC San Francisco: Deaths Rising in Workers Using Methylene Chloride Paint Strippers
Researchers and physicians from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and UC San Francisco have found that deaths of workers using methylene chloride paint strippers are on the rise ...
Acsh.org: EPA to Ban Methylene Chloride in Paint Strippers: Science or Scaremongering?
Numerous retailers promised to stop the sale of paint strippers containing methylene chloride even before Friday's announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of a ban on sales to ...
In early May, three mothers traveled to Washington, D.C., to urge members of Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of methylene chloride in paint and coating removers.
Methylene chloride found in popular paint removers has been banned for consumer use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency following controversial deaths linked to its use. The ban prohibits the ...