"Common Solvent Keeps Killing Workers, Consumers"

"Regulators have been slow to act on paint strippers, other products containing methylene chloride".

"Johnathan Welch was 18 and working through lunch when the fumes killed him, stealing oxygen from his brain, stopping his heart.

The chemical linked to his death in 1999 wasn’t a newly discovered hazard, nor was it hard to acquire. Methylene chloride, which triggered similar deaths dating as far back as the 1940s, could be bought barely diluted in products on retail shelves.

It still can. And it’s still killing people."

Jamie Smith Hopkins reports for the Center for Public Integrity September 21, 2015.