[CPEO-BIF] "How a bipartisan plan to ban the use of carcinogenic TCE fell apart at the Minnesota Legislature"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How a bipartisan plan to ban the use of carcinogenic TCE fell apart at the Minnesota Legislature
	

By Walker Ornstein
MinnPost (MN)
May 28, 2019

After state regulators found Water Gremlin, a manufacturer in White Bear Lake Township, was illegally polluting air with a cancer-causing industrial solvent for more than a decade, there was strong bipartisan support in the 2019 Legislature for banning the chemical, trichloroethylene, known as TCE.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted to outlaw TCE and the majority-DFL House passed its own version of a prohibition. Both measures would have made Minnesota the first state in the country to end the use of TCE, which is commonly used to degrease metal parts or remove stains in dry cleaning.

But neither bill ultimately became law.

A prohibition on TCE was not part of the final deal struck by political leaders and approved by lawmakers during last week’s special session. Instead, a House and Senate conference committee, meeting largely in secret, dedicated $786,000 to research TCE use in the state, its health effects and how to reduce it.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.minnpost.com/environment/2019/05/how-a-bipartisan-plan-to-ban-the-use-of-carcinogenic-tce-fell-apart-at-the-minnesota-legislature/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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