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EPA Staff Objected To Agency's New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show (nytimes.com)
Top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency pushed through a measure to review applications for using asbestos in consumer products, and did so over the objections of E.P.A.'s in-house scientists and attorneys, internal agency emails show. From a report: The clash over the proposal exposes the tensions within the E.P.A. over the Trump administration's efforts to roll back environmental rules and rewrite other regulations that industries have long fought. Asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral and known carcinogen, was once common in insulation and fireproofing materials, but today most developed countries ban it. The United States still allows limited use in products including gaskets, roofing materials and sealants. The proposed new rule would create a new process for regulating uses of asbestos, something the E.P.A. is obliged to do under a 2016 amendment to a toxic substances law.
However, a company harms one person - just one - its existence is forfeit.
A multi billion dollar company somehow harms someone, it goes on trial like a person -corporations are people! - and if found guilty executed with it's management.
So back when the Ford Pinto killed those people.
Ford would have been liquidated and Lee Iococa (the executive in charge at the time) sent to the electric chair.
And Tesla with its "autopilot" well, let's just say that Tesla wouldn't exist anymore and Musk would be dead now.
And yet the death rate by fire has steadily fallen since asbestos was banned in 1970.
Yep. That's right, pardner. The government shouldn't stop god fearing corporations from using whatever the hell they want, however the hell they want to. Who care if they put asbestos into every God-damned thing. Slap a warning sticker on it and move on.
It's not like every damned fool in the world would do something as stupid as, say, remove a floor that might have asbestos in it, or shingles, or ceiling tiles, or insulation.
Hell, if you are too stupid to know that every thing in the world could potential kill you in the most painful, drawn-out way, then maybe you don't deserve to live.
Also, fuck you. Both of my maternal grandparents died from Asbestosis. My grandfather dragged home asbestos fibers on his clothes from his work in a steel mill. Those two gentle people suffered for years and then died coughing blood.
Maybe you should, too.