Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
arstechnica.com
Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
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Why everything he does is evil? I don't get it.
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In 2017, 1.3 million tonnes of asbestos were mined worldwide. Russia was the largest producer with 53% of the world total
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Stupid knock off cancer dust.
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We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren't killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT
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It's going to be a very merry
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I didn’t realise it wasn’t already banned. It’s been banned in the UK since 1999.
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It is banned; they're talking about un-banning it
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I know! Let's put it back in cigarette filters and give them to children!
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PRISTINE Asbestos will BRING BACK JOBS to the US and KEEP its citizens WARM. So much for global WARMING if we need to return to GOOD OLD ASBESTOS
-BigMacHole
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Clown Ass Country.
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I cannot think of any reason they would do this unless they were just actively trying to kill people. We've known that asbestos is bad for 100 years and they finally banned the last kind of it very recently. This doesn't even make sense economically as it's not even in high demand. It would be cheaper and more economically viable to leave it exactly where it is. Next thing you know they are gonna start putting lead back into gasoline for literally no reason besides "fuck you."
Every sign points to them actively trying to kill people.
Yeah this is when the wealthy have decided the lower classes are expendable. They don't actually care about poor people having more babies. They just want rich people having more babies. They would like to see us gone because they think they can offset climate change by getting rid of a lot of us. Too bad for them they use ten times the resources as the bottom 50% of society.
My stab in the dark is to make asbestos lawsuits worthless.
If there is money to be made or saved by the capital class, you bet your ass Trump will make it happen.
Lead back in gas isn’t that far fetched. I have heard older folks complain about the fact that leaded gas isn’t a thing anymore because “it keeps the engine cleaner”.
Which is complete bs to begin with. Lead was added to fortify benzine for higher compression and to “lubricate” the valves. Modern additives and motor construction makes lead completely unnecessary and even possibly detrimental. It basically was used to mask constructional shortcomings of old motors.
And it’s still used in aviation gasoline, specifically 100LL which is used in many piston-engine aircraft.