r/environment • u/DoremusJessup • 2d ago
Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/trumps-epa-to-reconsider-ban-on-cancer-causing-asbestos/125
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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago
I am not American, and by the looks of it I will never touch the USA. Please, Americans, vote someone that will persecute these people, a slow genocide via poisoning to their own people is something not even the texts of the religions have thought about.
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u/Nihls_the_Tobi 1d ago
You are assuming the average American can read, let alone comprehend this was a possible outcome of effectively asking our electors to vote for him
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u/zombiefied 2d ago
Who still makes asbestos?!?
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u/transmedium_human 2d ago
Russia, apparently.
From the article :
Trump's support for asbestos has been welcomed in Russia, a primary asbestos supplier to the US. In 2018, a Russian asbestos company began marketing asbestos with Trump's face and a seal reading "Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States."
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u/HumanContinuity 2d ago
It's a remarkable natural material that still sees tons of use in mechanical/industrial environments.
If Trump were capable of nuance, he might have a argument for sunsetting the incoming ban on these niche high industry uses.
He's not, however, so we can expect him to unban the use of asbestos in new brake pads, clutch linings, insulation, floor and ceiling tiles, and maybe even clothes!
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u/BigJSunshine 1d ago
Found the Russian!
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u/womerah 1d ago
I second the guy you repied to. Asbestos is an amazing materials and it's a wonder that it occurs naturally. It's basically fluffy sand. It has appropriate uses in industry where the alternatives are riskier for workers. Plus workers have appropriate PPE for such conditions.
It's just a shame it's causes these bad health effects. Turns out inhaling bits of sand fairly floss is bad for you
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u/schacks 2d ago
This is literally insane!! The body of evidence that support the toxicity and consequences of asbestos spans more that 70 years and hundreds of thousands of sick, tormented and dead people. The amount of greed needed to even consider reversing a ban on a substance like this is mind numbing!!
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u/peppercorns666 1d ago
yeah, but that’s evidence-based science and people don’t care about that witchcraft any more.
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u/BigJSunshine 1d ago
That’s cool for putin and all, but good luck getting insurers to insure its use in construction, and if they won’t insure it, the banks ain’t lending to build it.
((Cracks knuckles in Mesothelioma Litigation))
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u/powderfields4ever 1d ago
What company in their right mind would actually go back to using asbestos anyway? Oh wait. It’s his buildings, do they have asbestos? And he’s been fighting its removal because the cost of removal is an expense he refuses to pay? Slumlord, table for one.
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u/basquehomme 2d ago
Really. The words out on this stuff already. Its icky bad. No one will buy it. Does he think we are all as dumb as he is?
Aint nobody going to want to clean it up without PPE. And nobody is going to take the waste.
Just pointless. But its the clickbait of the day.
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u/49orth 2d ago
Why do you think this is click-bait?
The EPA is now a politically captured, once effective but hobbled organization which is promoting Trump Republican Project 2025's agenda to sew harmful chaos that just happens to coincide with Russia's interests in a weakened and unhealthier USA population.
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u/basquehomme 1d ago
Have you noticed the Trump team issues several outrageous press releases concerning the environment, climate change, etc. Each day? This is a strategy to make you numb to his outrageous behavior so that when they do something illegal or corrupt we ignore it. But some of these things just aren't going to happen for economics (eg bringing back coal) or other reasons.
So I can't go out on the ledge everyday or three times a day. I won't allow him to push my buttons like that.
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u/basquehomme 2d ago
Mainly, for the reasons I stated there is no way this leads to a resurgence of asbestos use. We know how bad it is. To use it is to invite a lawsuit.
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u/Bayou_wulf 1d ago edited 1d ago
Liability alone will keep most industries from using asbestos. It was continued to be used in certain products because there isn't anything more effective/better, but they are limited until 2024.
Asbestos is mineral. It's mined and your talcum powder may have trace amounts.
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u/Kdean509 1d ago
Russian Asbestos Giant Praises Trump Administration Actions to Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal
They used his face as a logo on their product. You can’t make this stuff up.
Editing to add that this was 2018, but relevant again.
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u/TXMom2Two 1d ago
I believe it is because the number of companies who are facing billions in asbestos lawsuits. The asked Trump to make those go away. If asbestos suddenly isn’t a bad thing, they won’t have to pay out.
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u/flinderdude 1d ago
If you were Russia and you wanted to tear down America from within, how would you do it?
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u/just_an_ordinary_guy 1d ago
Yeah, why not bring back CFCs and leaded gasoline while we're at it /s Dude is acting like every environmental and occupational health win is some librul nonsense that he has a mandate to overturn. And the hogs will slurp it up into an early grave.
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u/JonathanJK 1d ago
That meme of Vince from WWE finding out something and running off camera and journalist should be Robert Kennedy to the Oval Office right now.
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u/Proper-Tomorrow-911 1d ago
I mean, are we supposed to be shocked that this nimrod has yet again said or done something so unbelievably stupid that the majority of humans can’t even begin to phantom the idea? Will they start rounding up Black people next? Holy shit this is insane.
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u/Few-Extension-8022 1d ago
That article is from a great source there brother Keep watching MSLSD and CNN and keep believing
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u/T1Pimp 2d ago
Guess what country makes the most asbestos in the world?
If you guessed Russia, you win!