American businesses are lining up in opposition to a recent Environmental Protection Agency proposal that would ban the vast majority of uses of a key chemical.
"OMA can appreciate EPA’s desire to restrict use of methylene chloride to the general public, retailers, and consumers such as home contractors/remodelers who may not be fully aware of the necessary precautions to safely use this chemical," OMA stated in its comment letter."However, this proposed rule is a case of ‘throwing-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.’"
"This historic proposed ban demonstrates significant progress in our work to implement new chemical safety protections and take long-overdue actions to better protect public health," EPA Administrator Regan said in April., stated the regulations would have"business-closing and job-killing" impacts.
"Table 3 in the notice of the MCL proposed rule, listing broad sectors of the economy that EPA plans to prohibit from using MCL, and the specific EPA statement that furniture refinisher business closures alone has an upper bound lost revenue level of $1.8 billion, suffice to render the EPA conclusion unreasonable.
And Olin, the world's largest manufacturer of chlorine and chlorine derivatives, said the EPA rule amounts to"arbitrary bans on dozens of vital industrial use cases" for MCL while arbitrarily exempting politically favored industries. The company added that the proposal"will do terrible damage to the national economy that will compound with each future rulemaking.
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