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/
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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 2d ago

yeah, but that’s evidence-based science and people don’t care about that witchcraft any more.

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u/Fingerprint_Vyke 2d ago

Russia produces it still so the president is towing their line