The EPA Plans to ‘Reconsider’ Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

In spite of being ambitious The goals of making the United States healthy, on Monday, the Trump administration in court documents revealed that it was backpaying on the ban on cancer asbests.

Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden Administration took a long -awaited action Prohibit the last kind of asbestos still used in the United States-Prootyl asbestos, alias “White Asbestos.” During the reduction of the use of chrysotyl asbestos, the dangerous mineral has long been prolonged in various gaskets, brake blocks, after -market automotive brakes and lining, other vehicles, friction products and sodium hydroxide and chlorine.

The ban has joined the United States in more than 5 countries in the United States that banned its use due to health risks. Generally, asbestos is known as lung cancer, mesothelia, ovarian cancer and laryngial cancer. The asbestos exposure is mentioned in the United States every year with more than 1.5 deaths in the United States, EPA.

“Science is clear – asbestos is a familiar carcinogen that has had a serious impact on public health. President Biden realizes that it is [is a] Anxiety that has spread the generation and influenced the lives of countless people. This is why EPA is so proud to finalize this chronic sanctions in the ongoing use of Asbestos, “APA administrator Michael Reagan said at that time. In a statementThe

“100 percent safe”

Although this step was decades to create and was praised by health supporters, it allows companies to use a liberal time to use asbestos – in some cases up to 12 years. It did not prevent the industry from taking legal action against the regulation soon after the EPA’s announcement. The case has been underway since several companies and trade groups, including the American Chemistry Council.

Monday, EPA, now under the administration of Trump, Court It says that “now wants to revisit this ban” and it “hopes that this process, including any regulatory change, will take about 30 months.” The court had asked the court to postpone the case in the EPA. In the case of the chemical protection and pollution resistance office, the new EPA deputy admin Lin Ann Declava included a declaration in support of the reconsideration, who worked until last year A lobbyist And The director of the American Chemistry CouncilThe

Such as ARS reported last yearThere was always concern that the other Trump administration would work to reverse the ban; Trump supports the use of asbestos. In his 1997 book ReturnTrump wrote that asbestos ”100 percent safe, once applied“And blame for the public for its reputation as carcinogen:” I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the crowd, because it was often the crowd -related companies that would remove asbestos. “

Supply for Trump’s Asbestos has been welcomed in Russia, providing primary asbestos to the United States. In 2018, a Russian Asbestos Organization started Asbestos marketing with Trump’s face And a sealing “The 45th President of the United States is approved by Donald Trump.”

This story was originally attended ArserThe