Chelsea Clinton Tweets 'The Trump Administration is #MAGA or Making Asbestos Great Again Boom.
Chelsea Clinton Tweets ‘The Trump Administration is #MAGA or Making Asbestos Great Again
Boom.
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In 2005, Donald Trump testified to Congress that asbestos, the banned carcinogenic building material, could have prevented the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. “A lot of people say that if the World Trade Center had asbestos it wouldn’t have burned down, it’s wouldn’t have melted. OK?” he said. “A lot of people in my industry think asbestos is the greatest fireproofing material ever made.”
It wasn’t the first time New York City’s most infamous real estate developer defended the use of the fire-retardant. In his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote that asbestos was “100 percent safe, once applied,” despite overwhelming evidence correlating the chemical with thousands of cases of mesothelioma, a deadly form of lung cancer. He even spread the conspiracy theory that “the movement against asbestos was led by the mob.”
Now as president, sadly, Trump’s love affair with asbestos has not waned, as he leads an under-the-radar effort to reintroduce asbestos into the American construction industry. On June 1, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency under the direction of scandal-plagued Administrator Scott Pruitt, enacted the Significant New Use Rule, which gave the agency the authority to evaluate the use of asbestos on a case-by-case basis. The EPA began focusing on the potential harm caused by direct contact with toxic chemicals in the workplace.
“The approach means that the improper disposal of chemicals — leading to the contamination of drinking water, for instance — will often not be a factor in deciding whether to restrict or ban them,” the New York Times wrote in June. This allows the EPA to circumvent the Obama-era Toxic Substances Control Act – requiring a comprehensive evaluation of potentially harmful substances.
Chelsea Clinton pounced on Trump’s push for a renewal of asbestos, using the president’s “#MAGA” slogan against him: “Make Asbestos Great Again!”
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Asbestos was one of the first carcinogens regulated under the Clean Air Act in 1973 (Nixon was president) and then was largely banned in 1989 (George HW Bush was president). No amount of asbestos is safe. Yet, the Trump administration is #MAGA or making asbestos great again:
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Russia is one of the few European countries still producing the dangerous substance in mass quantities. Recently, images surfaced on the asbestos exporter Uralasbest’s Facebook profile showing the company’s pallets stamped with a seal featuring Trump’s face that reads, “Approved by Donald Trump the 45th President of the United States.”
https://hyperallergic.com/454794/as-us-rules-for-asbestos-are-sidestepped-a-russian-manufacturer-emblazons-trumps-face-on-their-shipments/
Russia, you say? Hmmm.
In his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote that asbestos is “100 percent safe, once applied,” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. In the book, he continued:
I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented.
The mob, you say? Hmmm.
