By 2024, the Biden administration published a ban on the latest type of asbestos, which was still used in the United States due to its ties to cancer. Trump’s administration is not so sure that we must protect people from these things. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported That the Trump Environmental Protection Agency will delay the prohibition of the material and reconsider the rule completely. Because, hey, when has some time done a little cancer to someone?
The material found in the nucleus of this backward policymaker is asbestile chrysotile, also known as “white asbestos”. While you have been on the way out for a while, it is far from removing. White asbestos is still used in some ceiling, textile, cement and brake tablets and other automotive pieces. Sometimes it is also used to make chlorine. Its use continues despite the fact that the material has been linked to lung cancer, ovary cancer, larynx cancer and mesothelioma, which is a cancer in lungs, abdomen, heart or testicles. The EPA estimates This exposure to asbestos is related to more than 40,000 deaths in the United States.
For these reasons, more than 50 countries have already banned the use of material directly. The United States joined its ranks in 2024, when the Biden administration announced last year’s ban, although it even had a long time before it actually came into force. Under the rule introduced by the EPA under Biden, the White Abestos ban had a 12 -year departure period, which means that it would not have not really banned until 2036.
But how is it supposed that a chemical manufacturer should work with more than a decade of head? It’s too much to ask. You can also kill the rule completely. The Times reported That the Trump administration studies the re -elaboration of the rule to raise the prohibition of import and use of asbestos in the production of chlorine and the use of sheet metal boards that contain asbestos in the chemical manufacturing facilities.
If you ask yourself why Trump’s administration would meet again in this rule, which seems to be quite obvious, especially for the administration that he claims to do again in the United States, there is a relatively simple answer available: the lobbyists execute the program. For the times, the court presented by the EPA indicating that the rule that has been signed is reconsidered Lynn dekleva. Before joining the administration, Dekleva was an official of the American Chemistry Council, where he pressed to block regulations on Carcinogen Formaldehyde. And before that, 32 years went to Dupont, a company Identified repeatedly As in Greatest producer of dangerous “chemicals forever”. He is now responsible for approved chemicals to use EPA. Good luck to the rest of us.
