Despite the ambitious promotion The goals of making America more healthier, the Trump administration revealed on Monday in the court documents that it has retracted a bombing of cancer -causing asbestos.
Last year, according to the Biden Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency took a student step long ago Bringing the last type of asbestos that is still used in the United States– Chrysotile Asbestos, also known as “White Scientists”. While the use of asbestos Christotel was declining, the dangerous metal remained in many glows, brake blocks, car brakes and bushings after selling, other vehicle friction products, and some diaphragm used to make sodium hydroxide and chlorine.
With the embargo, the United States has joined more than 50 other countries around the world that has banned its use due to health risks. In general, it is known that asbestos cause lung cancer, medium epithelial tumor, ovarian cancer, and throat cancer. The Environmental Protection Agency at that time noted that exposure to Asbestos is linked to more than 40,000 deaths in the United States every year.
“Science is clear – Asbestos is a well -known carcinogen that has severe effects on public health. President Biden understands that this [is a] The anxiety that extended generations and affected the lives of countless people. That is why the Environmental Protection Agency is very proud to end this ban, which is needed for the continuous uses of asbestos, ”said Michael Reagan, the Environmental Protection Agency official at the time, said, said at that time In a statement.
“100 percent is safe”
Although this step was contracts for making health supporters and praising them, they still allow companies a generous period to gradually get rid of the use of asbestos – in some cases up to 12 years. This industry did not prevent legal action against the list shortly after the Environmental Protection Agency announced. The litigation, which was raised by a number of companies and commercial groups, including the US Chemistry Council, has been going on since then.
On Monday, Environmental Protection Agency, now under Trump’s management, The deposited court documents She said that she “is now intending to reconsider the embargo, and expects this process, including any organizational changes, will take about 30 months.” The Environmental Protection Agency asked the court to suspend the court case in the meantime. The deposit included an advertisement to support the reviews of the Assistant NEW EPA Assistant to the Chemical Safety Office and the Protection of Lynn Ann Dekleva, who worked until last year as Pressure groups and Director of the American Chemistry Council.
As I mentioned last yearThere has always been concerned that another Trump administration would work to turn the ban; Trump supports the use of asbestos. In his book 1997 The art of returnTrump wrote that asbestos “is”100 percent safe, as soon as it is appliedShe blamed the mob for her reputation as Cancer, and writing: “I think the movement against asbestos was led by the mobs, because it was often companies related to dodges that will remove asbestos. “
Trump’s support for Asbestos in Russia, a primary asbestos supplier for the United States. In 2018, the Russian company began the company Marketing asbestos with Trump’s face Reading the stamp of “Dunk Trump, the forty -fifth president of the United States.”
This story was originally appeared on Art Technica.
