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.
techtimes: EPA Bans Household Use Of Toxic 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 ...
Acsh.org: EPA to Ban Methylene Chloride in Paint Strippers: Science or Scaremongering?
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has finalized a ban on consumer uses of methylene chloride, a chemical that is widely used as a paint stripper but is known to cause ...
Retailers like Atlanta-based Home Depot, Lowe’s and Sherwin Williams plan to remove certain paint removers with methylene chloride as the Environmental Protection Agency weighs a ban on such products.
WCBD: Lowe’s to phase out paint stripping chemical believed to cause Lowcountry man’s death
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — A home improvement store announced it will phase out a paint stripping chemical, believed to cause the death of a Lowcountry man in 2017, by the end of 2018. Lowe’s ...
Lowe’s to phase out paint stripping chemical believed to cause Lowcountry man’s death
Center for Public Integrity: The EPA planned to ban a deadly paint-stripping chemical. Will it follow through?
It might be surprising to learn that simply removing paint could be fatal, but the key ingredient in many paint-stripping products has felled dozens of people engaged in this run-of-the-mill task. In ...