EPA still hasn't acted a year after proposing ban on deadly chemical

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Many of America's largest retailers, including Amazon, are planning to stop selling all paint stripping products containing methylene chloride. Fifty-six people have died since 1980 from exposure to paint strippers containing the chemical and although the EPA proposed banning it in 2017, the agency has yet to take action.

CBS News correspondent Anna Werner has been investigating this story for the past year, reporting on three young men who died while using products made with methylene chloride since April 2017, and on a new, safer formula that's expected to be on the market in the U.S. soon.

This Christmas wasn't the same for Lauren Atkins. Last February, her 31-year-old son Joshua died while using paint stripper in a bathroom to refinish the fork from his BMX bike.

"He had a smile that lit the sky. He was very generous. He was very kindhearted," Atkins said.

"I went up and knocked on the door and he didn't respond. So I opened the door and I found him." Joshua had been gone for several hours. "I was heartbroken because none of these deaths needed to occur.

All of these were preventable," Lauren said. Joshua joined victims Kevin Hartley and Drew Wynne, who both died in 2017 -- all young men who lost their lives using common strippers containing methylene chloride.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/epa-still-hasnt-acted-a-year-after-proposing-ban-on-deadly-chemical/ar-BBRukDf?li=BBnbcA1

[klook]

1. Think of the lost profits!

Hope the House Dems will light a fire under the administration deadbeats in the New Year.

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2. that stuff is horrible

messed up my lungs with it while stripping some paint - outside! They will delay the ban for the companies to sell existing stock, but in the meantime they are making more. $$$$$ and they don't have to pay for anyone's healthcare from using that product.