Despite the fact that he was late in favor, Daniel Kinelle felt relieved in December when the environmental agency finally banned TCE. According to independent research and EPA. It has also been shown significantly increases the chances of people to develop Parkinson’s disease.
Kinella and his three colleagues diagnosed Parkinson’s disease. All of them worked in a legal office in Rochester, New York, who was sitting next to a dry cleaner that threw TCE into the soil. Kinella was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative condition at the age of 43 after working there for seven years. Three his colleagues have died since then. At least 15 firm partners developed rivers associated with TCE.
“It was good for me that we finally got rid of this horrible chemical,” said Kinel, whose symptoms now do not allow to recruit, write or work as a lawyer. “My children and grandchildren will be protected.”
But his sense of consolation was short -lived.
The ban has been challenged on several fronts since President Donald Trump has taken the position for the second time in January. Republicans in the Senate and the House imposed resolutions to lift the ban, which was vulnerable to the cancellation of the Congressional Law, as it was issued shortly before the inauguration. Meanwhile, companies and trade groups sued the court. Trump’s executive order detained the implementation of the ban until March 21, and last week the EPA asked the Federal Appeal Court to hold the ban even more.
TCE, Short for Trichloretylene, is one of the five toxic substances for which the full or partial prohibitions taken by EPA under President Joe Biden are now threatened. Trump’s administration has told the courts that he wanted to review all five bans to determine whether to unscrew them back. Those forbidden substances include a deadly stripper called methylenechlide; PCE, a solvent that looks like TCE; carbon tetrachloid used as a cleansing fluid; and mineral asbestos that causes cancer. David Photoh, lawyer Trump, nominated for second place in the agency, tried to cancel asbestos In October, when he worked as a lawyer for a group of car companies. EPA classifies all recently prohibited chemicals as carcinogenic or probably carcinogenic to humans.
But the EPA ban on TCE is in greater danger than the rest because it has not yet come into force. The ban on chemist should start this year for all consumers and numerous industrial and commercial purposes. The EPA allowed more gradually out of a dozen industrial purposes, such as for some aerospace and defense applications. In these cases, Biden EPA demanded that employers provide healthcare for employees who come into contact with TCE. The latest Trump’s EPA petition to the Federal Appeal Court to expand the ban delay will also mean that employers will not need new health care for employees.
The prohibition delay means that people will continue to be exposed to a chemical that causes liver cancer, kidney cancer and lymphoma, as well as holes in the hearts of infants that can be deadly. While more secure alternatives exist for many of its use, TCE is traced into drinking more than 17 million people in the US, according to the data compiled by a non -profit organization Working Group on the environment. Were identified dangerous plums tce Woburn, Massachusetts; Vichita, Kansas; and Marine infantry base at Lejeune’s camp in North CarolinaWhere hundreds of service members developed the disease and Cancer Parkinson. There is another one TC PLUME At Long -Aillend in New York, in the county, which is adjacent to which EPA Lee Zeldin administrator presented in Congress.
The idea that people will still be exposed to TCE Jerry Ensminger. This chemical “must leave”, – said Sergeant Marine Corps, which is an open supporter of military families that are exposed to TCE. Ensminger’s daughter Janny died of leukemia when she was 9; Ensminger said Jenny was conceived in the Liezhon camp, and the family lived there during most of the first trimester, then returned when she was 6. Ensminger reminded how the workers saw the truck in large metal parts in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Scientists have begun expressing concern to toxicity tce Almost a century ago. EPA work on the chemical continued slowly. In 1987, he considered the “probable human carcinogen”. In 2001, the EPA assessment project found that the chemical would be more toxic than it was previously, and it is very likely that it causes cancer. The conclusion was attacked by some industry and government scientists. The Department of Defense, which is responsible for hundreds of attached TCE, criticized the report on the basis of “unhealthy science”. However, two reviews of the panels of independent scientists found that the assessment was healthy. However, the EPA did not start to make tougher rules on TCE until the end of the Presidential Administration Barack Obama.
These efforts struck during Trump’s first term if EPA has weakened a report on the consequences of TCE About the disorders of the fetus and stopped working on new rules. Nancy Beck, which before coming to the first Trump administration was a high -level lobbyist for the American Chemistry Council, an industry trading group, ruled the EPA chemical program when it retreated from the TCE and, in general, in general, retreated from the rules that the chemical industry saw as it burdens.
Returning to the private sector, Beck was recently named the chief deputy assistant administrator at the Chemical Security Office and EPA pollution. She did not respond to comment requests.
Her purpose left the environmentalists to despair over the fate of the long -awaited tce ban.
“The same lobbyist of the Galina, who was engaged in the EPA chemical program, is responsible for it again,” said Daniel Rosenberg, director of the Federal Taxis Federation at the Council of Defense of Natural Resources. “When she was there for the first time, she moved the sky and the earth to weaken the assessment of the chemical and humiliated danger. It seems to be where it goes again.”
More than 100 groups representing public health, environment and society’s interests Recently sent a letter to Zeldin, calling him to restore the TCE ban. The link announced by zaldin’s interest in pure water for each American, the letter states that the EPA estimated that its rule would lead to $ 20 million in health levels and stated that “delaying the introduction of these rules will lead to preventing death, illness and disability and increased medical or specialized. This week, ecological and working groups have sued a short court, which opposes the EPA’s efforts to delay the introduction of the TCE ban.
EPA did not answer questions about TCE. Senator John Kennedy, A-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-l. Marianet Miller-Mex, R-Yov and Diana Kharshborger, P-Men. introduced a resolution for its cancellation The House also did not respond to the Propublica requests. Press -Secretary of the American Chemistry Council sent PROPULICA to his Press -Release Since Decemberwho acknowledged that the EPA included “important adjustments” to TCE to ensure flexibility for the affected industries.
In a press release on his application for the abolition of Kennedy, “Baden’s administration was waged against chemical producers in America,” and he urged Congress “to move quickly to remove the handcuffs that President Biden on Louisian and US business.” In the same issue, Kharshbarger called the TCE ban on “one of the many examples of the Biden Administration”.
At the House’s Chemical Regulation Hearing in January, Harshborg said the company in her county, MicropicallyThe membranes used in lithium batteries are facing the “existential threat” from the TCE ban. The ban made an exception to use TCE for this purpose, which allowed the battery industry to continue using it by 2044. The microphone who disputed the ban in court did not answer the question of why he needed 20 years to find the right replacement for TCE.
Since Trump’s inauguration, EPA has been promoting its efforts to retreat environmental protection. Earlier this month, the agency announced the “most subsequent days of the US history”, given the 31 rules that it planned to depart, related to oil and gas, air pollution and greenhouse gases. Agency noted the message Press Release 6500 words This included praise 61 leaders of the industry, leaders and republican politicians.
However, some who were focused on TCE were surprised that the Trump administration had detained and reviewed a recent ban. “I thought it was a deal,” said Dr. Sarah Whittingham, retired by the United States Air Force surgeon, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at 46. When she heard that the rule could be abolished, she was an agastr. “What the hell is like no one can care?” she said. “It should be a non -partisan problem.”
Whittingham believes that her illness may occur from the two years she spent as an aircraft service officer based on the Kelly Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, from 1996 to 1998. Her office was above the store where the workers used TCE to clean the engine parts.
Last week, Whittingham was united with two friends, both Air Force graduates who were diagnosed with Parkinson as women in the 40s Call the people to press for Congress give up permits.
“We have signed up to go to fight for our country,” she said, but now it seems to be the attitude: “” We don’t care your health, you have already signed the dashed line. “This is a blow to the face.”
Before making Parkinson’s diagnosis, Whittingham hoped her children would go on her career. But recently she released her daughter, who was highly in high school. According to her, health risks were too high.
