The Biden Administration is truly made up of radicals who love watching the world burn.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on Thursday to ban most uses of a toxic chemical used in paint removal. 

The proposal would ban most industrial and commercial uses of methylene chloride, which, in addition to paint removal,  is used as a solvent in making pharmaceuticals and in electronics. 

One study found that methylene-chloride exposure killed 85 people between 1980 and 2018. The substance has also been linked to certain cancers. 

The new proposal, from the Biden administration, goes further than a Trump administration rule that banned the sale to consumers of paint strippers using methylene chloride but did not address its industrial uses. 

As it turns out, methylene chloride is an essential industrial chemical used not just for paint removal, but also in the production of pharmaceuticals and electronics. Industry and business groups are already sounding the alarm over banning the substance’s outcome stating the EPA did not conduct an economic risk assessment on the agency’s proposed regulation and if it goes through, will have disastrous consequences.

“We have grave concerns that EPA is going beyond its statutory authority with this rule, and usurping [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA)] authority to regulate workplace safety by replacing OSHA’s limits with EPA’s own limits and practices,” it continued. “Therefore, we urge in the strongest terms that the final rule exempts commercial and industrial sectors, that are already highly regulated by OSHA.”

…In addition, the NFIB, which is the largest U.S. small business group, stated the regulations would have “business-closing and job-killing” impacts. The group argued the EPA should withdraw the rule since its determination of health impacts is “fatally flawed,” there isn’t a viable replacement for MCL and the EPA failed to properly study the impact on the national economy.

If approved, the prohibition would also be a threat to the national security of the United States, where our military would only be able to use methylene chlorine that is needed for its equipment and would have to be supplied from countries like China.

President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency last year unveiled rule proposals aimed at banning certain chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act. At least one chemical on the chopping block—methylene chloride—is used to produce military equipment such as bulletproof glass, helmets, and fighter jet canopies. As a result, companies that rely on the chemical to produce such products are sounding the alarm, with polymer manufacturer Covestro arguing in a June letter to the EPA that the ban would “require military and police related applications to be manufactured from foreign sourced materials.”

The proposed ban comes as China works to ramp up its chemical production.

Not surprisingly, environmental groups, like EarthJustice, approve of the ban. The deceased 85 people cited as one of the EPA’s justifications for this prohibition is very unfortunate. But, it is small when compared to other chemicals that can easily surpass such a statistic and any chemical, including water, can be deadly if mishandled.

What this is about is the Biden White House again revealing its radical hand using agencies, like the EPA, to destroy the American economy. They could not accomplish their creative destruction through the legislative process so they result to regulations instead. To radicals, like Biden and his Jacobin backers, there are no trade-offs only the utopia they hope to achieve down the line but has never existed.

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