Despite doing ambitious The objectives of making healthier in America, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in court documents based on a prohibition on asbestos that causes cancer.
Last year, under the administration of Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency made such a long -awaited step Prohibit the latest type of asbestos that is still used in the United States—Chrysotile asyntic, also known as “White Asiant”. While the use of chrysotyl asbestile was declining, the dangerous mineral has been maintained in several boards, brake blocks, brakes and subsequent automobile coatings, other vehicle friction products and some diaphragms used to make sodium and chlorine hydroxide.
With the ban, the United States joined more than 50 countries around the world who had banned their use due to health risks. Asbestos is generally known that it causes lung cancer, mesothelioma, ovary cancer and larynx cancer. Asbestos exposure is related to more than 40,000 deaths in the United States every year, the EPA said at the time.
“Science is clear: as a partner it is a known carcinogen that has serious impacts on public health. President Biden understands that this (is one) concern that he has covered generations and has affected the life of countless people. That’s why EPA is so proud In a statement.
“100 percent safe”
Although the measure was decade in the preparation and was joined by health defenders, it still allowed companies a generous generous period for asbestos use, in some cases up to 12 years. This did not prevent the industry from taking legal actions against the regulation shortly after the EPA’s announcement. The litigation, brought by several companies and commercial groups, including the American Chemistry Council, has been under progress since then.
On Monday, the EPA, now under the Trump administration, presented court documents Saying that “it now intends to reconsider” the ban and “hopes that this process, including regulatory changes, will take about 30 months.” In the meantime, the EPA asked the court to suspend the court case. The presentation included a statement in support of the reconsideration of the new Deputy Assistant of the EPA of the Office of Chemical Security and Prevention of Lynn Dekleva pollution, which until last year worked as a a lobbyist and Director of American Chemistry Council.
As Ars reported last yearThere was always concern that another Trump administration worked to override the ban; Trump supports the use of asbestos. In his 1997 book The art of the comebackTrump wrote that asbestos is “100 percent safe, once applied“And he blamed the multitude of his reputation as a carcinogen, writing:” I think the asbestos movement was run by the crowd, because they were often companies related to the crowd that would eliminate asbestos. “
Trump’s support for asbestos has been welcomed in Russia, a leading asbest provider in the United States. In 2018, a Russian asbestos company started Asbestos marketing with Trump’s face and a stamps reading “approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States”.
This story originally appeared Ars Technica.
