EPA Issues Ban On Last Type Of Asbestos Still In Use

March 19, 2024 Environment, Government

Ars Technica reports:

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a ban on the only type of asbestos still used in the US, chrysotile asbestos. This move was decades in the making.

Chrysotile asbestos, aka “white asbestos,” is still imported, processed, and used in the US for diaphragms (including those used to make sodium hydroxide and chlorine), sheet gaskets, brake blocks, aftermarket automotive brakes/linings, other vehicle friction products, and other gaskets, the EPA notes.

The US ban comes after decades of efforts, and the US now joins more than 50 other countries that have already passed bans. Trump has directly supported the use of asbestos, writing in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback that it is “100% safe, once applied.”

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