Trump EPA May Undo Cancer-Causing Asbestos

In 2024, the Biden administration issued a prohibition on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States due to its links with cancer. The Trump administration is not so sure that we have to protect people from these things. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported The fact that the Trump environmental protection agency will delay the prohibition of equipment and will fully reconsider the rule. Because, hey, when has a little cancer already injured someone?

The material at the heart of this back and forth policies is the chrysotile asbestos, otherwise known as “white asbestos”. Although he has been going out for some time, he is far from being eliminated. White asbestos is always used in certain roofing materials, textiles, cement and is located in brake pads and other automotive parts. It is also sometimes used to make chlorine. Its use continues despite the fact that the equipment has been linked to lung cancer, ovary cancer, larynx cancer and mesothelioma, which is cancer in liquids, abdomen, heart or testicles. EPA estimates This asbestos exhibition is linked to more than 40,000 deaths in the United States.

For these reasons, more than 50 countries have already prohibited the use of equipment. The United States joined its ranks in 2024, when the Biden administration announced the ban last year, although even it had a very long delay before its entry into force. Under the rule introduced by the EPA under Biden, the Blanche Abestos Ban had a 12 -year elimination period, which means that it would not have been really prohibited in all until 2036.

But how is a chemical manufacturer supposed to operate with more than a decade of the head? It’s just too much asking. Could also kill the rule entirely. The times reported That the Trump administration plans to rework the rule to raise the ban on importing and use of asbestos in chlorine production and the use of leaf joints containing asbestos in chemical manufacturing facilities.

If you are wondering why the Trump administration would decide on this rule which seems to be obviously obvious, in particular for the administration which claims that it wants to make America again in good health, there is a relatively simple response available: the lobbyists direct the show. According to the Times, the deposit of the EPA court indicating that it reconsiders the rule has been signed by Lynn Dekleva. Before joining the administration, Dekleva was an official of the American Chemistry Council, where she put pressure to block regulations on the formaldehyde carcinogen. And before that, she spent 32 years in Dupont, a company identified several times inasmuch as large producer “chemicals forever” dangerous “. Now she is responsible for approving chemicals to use at EPA. Good luck in the rest of us.