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Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos (arstechnica.com)
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wonder what this place thinks

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

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."

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Every sign points to them actively trying to kill people.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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”.

[-] viscacha@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] setnof@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

And it’s still used in aviation gasoline, specifically 100LL which is used in many piston-engine aircraft.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

It's going to be a very merry xmas

[-] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Installation of blowers around the white house and sprinkling with asbestos dust around the clock.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Why everything he does is evil? I don't get it.

[-] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren't killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I didn’t realise it wasn’t already banned. It’s been banned in the UK since 1999.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago

It is banned; they're talking about un-banning it

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

It should be mentioned that it was only banned in the US in 2024 under Biden, so obviously yet another reason why he would want to overturn the ban (on top him being paid to overturn it of course).

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago

You baned ASBESTOS in 2024???!!! It's not the right century.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

It hasn't been used in decades, banned or not

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I think my favourite part is that it was banned in the us in 1989 but then unbanned in 1991 after a fight in the court of appeals.

Oh and there are still some asbestos uses allowed (cement sheets, industrial diaphragms, etc.) but the us is not unique in this.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Like restarting production or slowing down the decontamination?

[-] breecher@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Restarting production. Trump has been praising asbestos for years, so the people eager to restart that production has obviously been paying him for some time.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I know! Let's put it back in cigarette filters and give them to children!

[-] somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

In 2017, 1.3 million tonnes of asbestos were mined worldwide. Russia was the largest producer with 53% of the world total

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Stupid knock off cancer dust.

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