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The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S.
The about-face came after a public outcry over plans to reconsider Biden-era restrictions on the carcinogenic material.
Despite touting ambitious goals of making America healthier, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in court documents ...
The Trump administration says it will uphold a Biden-era ban on the ongoing use of asbestos after previously saying it would ...
Is it possible for a single mineral to spark decades of courtroom drama, industry lobbying, and fierce public health debate? The answer, as the ongoing saga of chrysotile asbestos in the United States ...
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders the ban on asbestos, an Indiana man suffering from asbestosis ...
Linda Reinstein, president and CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, said she was elated the EPA isn’t going to reconsider the Biden administration’s ban.
U.S. fully bans asbestos, which kills 40,000 a year. The agency is prohibiting imports of chrysotile asbestos, the only form of the cancer-causing mineral that U.S. industry still uses ...
The asbestos ban comes decades after federal lawmakers tried to ban the substance in the 1980s. Those efforts were largely struck down in 1991, leading to "more than three decades of inadequate ...
Known as “white” asbestos, chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.
Linda Reinstein, president and CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, said she was elated the EPA isn’t going to reconsider the Biden administration’s ban.
Chrysotile asbestos is found in products such as brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016.