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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAsbestos from Russia .-Thank you Mr. Trump
Uralasbest, a Russian mining company and the worlds largest supplier of asbestos, posted a photo in June of President Trumps face as a seal on their shipping pallets. (Via the Uralasbest company Facebook Page
Fast Company recently reported on the potential comeback of one of the most infamous building materials of recent memory. Asbestos is now legally allowed back into U.S. manufacturing under a serious of loopholes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Fast Company reported, on June 1, the EPA authorized a SNUR (Significant New Use Rule) that allowed the creation of new products containing asbestos on a case-by-case basis.
According to Fast Company, the EPAs recently released report detailing its new framework for evaluating the risk of its top prioritized substances states that the agency will no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.
Earlier last month, The Washington Post noted that the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the ADAO had discovered a controversial post on Russian asbestos exporter Uralasbests Facebook page showing photos of company pallets stamped with a seal of U.S. President Donald Trumps face. As The Post covered, Trump has long been vocal about his skepticism about the harmful effects of asbestos, claiming in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, that anti-asbestos efforts were led by the mob. The Post uncovered how in 2012, he tweeted that the World Trade Center might not have burned had the fire-retardant material not been removed from the towers. Its estimated that 400 tons of asbestos fiber went into the structures before the developers stopped it from being used further in 1971.
https://archpaper.com/2018/08/epa-asbestos-manufacturing/
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Asbestos from Russia .-Thank you Mr. Trump (Original Post)
packman
Aug 2018
OP
jesus... you know how much money was spent removing asbestos from our buildings
lapfog_1
Aug 2018
#1
Pleasing Putin. I hope no companies use it, and if they do have to disclose it
notdarkyet
Aug 2018
#2
lapfog_1
(29,217 posts)1. jesus... you know how much money was spent removing asbestos from our buildings
over the last 40 years?
I would guess billions.
My father died of lung cancer caused by asbestos (he was in the Navy in WWII).
WTF is going on here?
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)2. Pleasing Putin. I hope no companies use it, and if they do have to disclose it