Dems urge EPA to protect workers from deadly paint stripper

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Senate Democrats are pushing EPA to protect workers from methylene chloride after the agency excluded thatpopulation from a consumer sales ban on paint strippers containing that substance.Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, andMinority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, along with 20 other Senate Democrats, sent a letter today to EPAAdministrator Andrew Wheeler and Assistant Administrator Alexandra Dunn on the agency's final rule banningmethylene chloride in consumer products.Methylene chloride can quickly kill workers if they aren't wearing a respirator in well-ventilated space. The rule,issued last month, does not ban the sale of paint strippers containing methylene chloride for use in commercialsettings (E&E News PM, March 15).