Chris D'Angelo is an environment reporter at HuffPost, based in Washington, D.C. He covers public lands, climate change, biodiversity and environmental policy. Prior to joining HuffPost, he wrote for daily newspapers in Hawaii.
The federal agency announced its action at a press conference in Woburn, Massachusetts, where industrial dumping from W.R. Grace and other companies beginning in the 1950s left the town’s soil, groundwater and drinking wells tainted with TCE and other chemicals.
“The science is loud and clear,” she said at the press conference. “This chemical is so dangerous, even in small amounts, that we don’t think any uses can safely continue.” The proposal, which will be open to a 45-day public comment period, would force companies to end the use of TCE for most commercial and consumer uses within one year. It would provide longer phase-out timelines for certain military and industrial uses, including battery manufacturing and refrigerants.250 million pounds of TCE are used in the U.S. annually, according to the EPA.
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