Like restarting production or slowing down the decontamination?
Comment on Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
boatswain@infosec.pub 2 months agoIt is banned; they’re talking about un-banning it
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Restarting production. Trump has been praising asbestos for years, so the people eager to restart that production has obviously been paying him for some time.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It should be mentioned that it was only banned in the US in 2024 under Biden, so obviously yet another reason why he would want to overturn the ban (on top him being paid to overturn it of course).
ideonek@piefed.social 2 months ago
You baned ASBESTOS in 2024???!!! It's not the right century.
Soulg@ani.social 2 months ago
It hasn’t been used in decades, banned or not
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I think my favourite part is that it was banned in the us in 1989 but then unbanned in 1991 after a fight in the court of appeals.
Oh and there are still some asbestos uses allowed (cement sheets, industrial diaphragms, etc.) but the us is not unique in this.