Are These Cancer-Causing Chemicals In Your Home!? EPA FINALLY Takes Action! - Thom Hartmann

[Rhiannon12866]

The EPA bans TCE and PERC solvents, addressing decades of contamination in Superfund sites like Scottsdale, Arizona.

The EAP is the Environmental Protection Agency.

Discover the impact of trichloroethylene on water, health, and military bases, and the controversial Department of Defense exemption in this deep dive.

The EPA Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals In Your Home. - Aired on 12/31/2024.

[duncang]

1. We would use it cleaning electrical equipment.

Get a solvent spray gun, the trichlor in gallon cans, a simple mask, and brushes to scrub stuff down.

Worst time I used it before everyone knew about it was in an electrical equipment room down in a ship. My apprentice and I worked overnight while no one else was around. There was a couple of those big lines supplying fresh air down there but it really didn’t work well. After a little while I noticed my apprentice moving real slow or just freezing in place. He was stoned out of his mind. As we were going up the stairs I had to keep him moving up them. We had to take a long break laying on the deck.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Yikes! And they're just banning it now?!

Glad that you're okay and I hope your apprentice is too!

[TexLaProgressive]

3. Trichloroethane was commonly used in typewriter correction fluids

Like dunc, we used it in the telecommunications industry to degrease electromechanical switches. I sprayed I don’t know haw many gallots of this into rotary switches and 2 motion step by step switches to strip off the old lubriccants. I was given an activated carbon respirator like painters use, but they did not supply replacement cartriges. Mine overloaded with Trichloroethane and I was stumpling around like a drunken fool

3 men and myself developed early prostate cancer, and later I developed bladder cancer.. Trichloroethane exposure may have been the culprit.