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Democracy Matters :verified:<p>MAKE ASBESTOS GREAT AGAIN is off, apparently. These people have NO IDEA what they're doing.</p><p>In reversal, Trump administration will defend Biden's asbestos ban<br><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5390585-trump-administration-epa-biden-asbestos-ban/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/policy/energy-envi</span><span class="invisible">ronment/5390585-trump-administration-epa-biden-asbestos-ban/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asbestos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOPKakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoRepublicansEverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoRepublicansEverAgain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
US<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/us/35452/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/us/35452/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Federal contractors dumped wildfire asbestos waste at L.A. landfills <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Air" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Air</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArmyCorps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArmyCorps</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asbestos</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ash</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BurnedDownHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BurnedDownHome</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CalabasasLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CalabasasLandfill</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FederalContractor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalContractor</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FireDebris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FireDebris</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HazardousWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HazardousWaste</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NickSpada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NickSpada</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ProtectiveMask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectiveMask</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SimiValleyLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimiValleyLandfill</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WasteManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WasteManagement</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WildfireAsbestosWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildfireAsbestosWaste</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/worker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worker</span></a></p>
Rich Stein (he/him)<p>Prescient (2018):<br>“'trump is on our side,' said Vladimir V. Kochelayev, chairman of the board of Uralasbest, one of the world’s few remaining producers of asbestos, citing what he said were reports that the trump administration was easing restrictions on asbestos use."<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/world/europe/asbestos-russia-mine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.BZdm.GxOwL-wdoRB7&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2019/04/07/world/e</span><span class="invisible">urope/asbestos-russia-mine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.BZdm.GxOwL-wdoRB7&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a></p>
Day<p>“Sometimes it’s blue”🩵<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fyp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fyp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foryoupage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foryoupage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maha</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democrat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>project2025</span></a></p>
Darnell Clayton :verified:<p>The willful ignorance by the American administration is astounding. </p><p>👉🏾 <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Considering <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/Asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asbestos</span></a> Ban Reversal Sparks Warning: 'Lives at Risk' <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rolling-back-asbestos-ban-sparks-warning-lives-risk-2088221" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/trump-rolling-bac</span><span class="invisible">k-asbestos-ban-sparks-warning-lives-risk-2088221</span></a> </p><p>Do they doubt the <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> behind the ban‽ Reversing it will lead to thousands of deaths in <a href="https://one.darnell.one/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> 🇺🇸!</p>
Flipboard Science Desk<p>Asbestos is universally known as a carcinogen, which is why the Biden administration banned the last type of it used in the United States last year. At the time, the EPA called it a milestone in the fight against cancer. Now, it says it's reconsidering the ban to determine if it “went beyond what is necessary to eliminate the unreasonable risk," said Lynn Ann Dekleva, a senior official in the EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, and a former employee of the American Chemistry Council, which previously filed a court challenge against the ban. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> breaks it all down.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/g3Ad.4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/g3Ad.4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asbestos</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a></p>
Doug Bostrom<p>"Trump's support for asbestos has been welcomed in Russia, a primary asbestos supplier to the US. In 2018, a Russian asbestos company began marketing asbestos with Trump's face and a seal reading "Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States.""</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a><br><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/chrysotile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chrysotile</span></a><br><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SyntheticIgnorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SyntheticIgnorance</span></a></p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/trumps-epa-to-reconsider-ban-on-cancer-causing-asbestos/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/health/2025/06</span><span class="invisible">/trumps-epa-to-reconsider-ban-on-cancer-causing-asbestos/</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cdarwin</span></a></span> the fact that the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> still doesn't ban <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a> outside of extremely limited nieche applications with proper disposal and care rules in place (i.e. tungsten smelters) is shocking!</p><ul><li>Cuz all these use-cases have been illegal in the EU for decades and innGermany for longer than I live...</li></ul>
Schauinsland<p>An iron ore <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/miner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>miner</span></a> has applied to explore the mineral potential of one of Western <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>'s most heavily contaminated landscapes.</p><p>For more than 30 years Wittenoom, 1,400km north of Perth in WA's Pilbara, was the site of a blue <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asbestos</span></a> mine.</p><p>Its operations contaminated the surrounding area, and are linked to the deaths of more than 1,200 former workers and residents.<br>Miners push exploration of asbestos-contaminated land at Wittenoom - ABC News<br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/wittenoom-iron-ore-mining-exploration-application-asbestos/105382116" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/wit</span><span class="invisible">tenoom-iron-ore-mining-exploration-application-asbestos/105382116</span></a></p>
Miro Collas<p>'Very, very toxic': The risk of asbestos in Gaza's rubble <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8y4j91l83o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/ce8y4j91</span><span class="invisible">l83o</span></a></p><p>'"The Gaza rubble is a very, very toxic environment," says Professor Bill Cookson, director of the National Centre for Mesothelioma Research in London. "People are going to suffer acutely, but also in the longer term as well, things that children may carry throughout their lives."'</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contamination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asbestos</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>
divVerent<p>Beware of the <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/dangers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dangers</a> of <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Silicon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Silicon</a> <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Dioxide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dioxide</a><span>!<br><br>- Silicon Dioxide is a side product of dehydration of </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/asbestos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#asbestos</a><span><br>- Inhaling Silicon Dioxide causes </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/silicosis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#silicosis</a><span> which is a condition that can fatally damage the lungs<br>- Silicon Dioxide is commonly used to contain </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/DihydrogenMonoxide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DihydrogenMonoxide</a><span><br>- Silicon Dioxide is a substance frequently warned about on packages<br>- Silicon Dioxide is used to manufacture </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/5G" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#5G</a><span> endpoint devices<br>- Silicon Dioxide is used by the </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/military" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#military</a> to direct the effect of <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/TerahertzRadiation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TerahertzRadiation</a><span> at the intended target<br>- Silicon Dioxide is a chemical known to the State of </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/California" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#California</a> to cause <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/cancer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cancer</a><span>.<br>- Silicon Dioxide is an essential component of </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/Molotov" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Molotov</a><span> Cocktails<br>- Substantial amounts of Silicon Dioxide are often among trash washed up by the sea<br>- Silicon Dioxide, even in form of medium sized crystals, is a known "chicken killer"<br>- Silicon Dioxide is, as known for a long time, where the </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/foolish" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foolish</a><span> man built his home<br>- Silicon Dioxide is a commonly used extinguishing agent for Class D fires<br>- Contact with Silicon Dioxide often causes bleeding and injuries up to and including death<br>- Silicon Dioxide is used to enhance the effect of abrasive blasting, and can even chip away at steel<br>- Silicon Dioxide is often shipped alongside other dangerous chemicals such as </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/SulfuricAcid" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SulfuricAcid</a><span><br>- Just small quantities of Silicon Dioxide in your bed can cause </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/insomnia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insomnia</a><span><br><br>Despite all this, even today Silicon Dioxide is still used as a building material for homes! </span><a href="https://misskey.de/tags/SiliconDioxide" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconDioxide</a> <a href="https://misskey.de/tags/conspiracy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a><span><br><br>(sorry for repost, had a massive typo)</span></p>
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@camwilson also #wood is a #rebewable and #CarbonNeutral source.

As for the #blades there sadly doesn't seem to be much of an alternative to #composite #plastic which is not recycleable as even cutting it into pieces makes #GlassFiber shards that are jist barely less toxic as #asbestos.

  • Rarely the cost to do so is worth the effort, given those ain't straight but curved pieces of #plastic...

Things that have #asbestos in them that you wouldn't think do-
linoleum AKA vinyl flooring, Sheet vinyl.
The backing on many of these products contains a fair amount of asbestos. It's not much of an issue, unless you pull it up, because it's often glued down and when you pull it you pull the asbestos backing apart.

Today in Labor History February 14, 1949: Canadian asbestos workers began a six-month strike. It also marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution, a period of intense socio-political change in Quebec. The strike began at midnight on February 14, when miners walked off the job at four asbestos mines. Most of the mines were owned by American or English-Canadian companies, but most of the workers were francophones. The largest company was the American Johns-Manville firm. The workers’ demands included the elimination of asbestos dust inside and outside of the mill and a small raise. Six weeks into the strike, Johns-Manville hired scabs to keep the mines open. 5,000 strikers attacked the scabs, destroying their property and intimidating them through force. Miners and police fought on the picket line. They arrested hundreds of miners. On March 14, someone blew up a part of a railroad track leading into the Johns-Manville property. On May 5, the strikers barricaded a mine and every road into and out of town. They only backed down when the police pledged to open fire on them. The next day, the police beat miners and began mass-arresting them. This intimidated the union leadership to the point that they gave in and agreed to return to work with few gains.

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#Trump has stocked the #EPA w/ #political appointees who have worked as lawyers & lobbyists for the #oil & #chemical industries. They include #DavidFotouhi, the nominee for deputy administrator, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on #asbestos; #AaronSzabo, a lobbyist for both the oil & chemical industries who is expected to be the top #air #pollution regulator; & #NancyBeck, a longtime chem industry lobbyist, who is serving as snr EPA adviser on chemical safety & pollution.

The man tapped by President Donald Trump to be second-in-command of the federal agency that protects the public from environmental dangers
is a lawyer who has represented companies accused of harming people and the environment through pollution.

#David #Fotouhi, a partner in the global law firm Gibson Dunn,
played a key part in rolling back climate regulations and water protections
while serving as a lawyer in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first administration.

Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of #asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma.

In a brief filed in October on behalf of a group of car companies called the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, he argued that, for the specific uses that were banned, the “EPA failed to demonstrate that chrysotile asbestos presents an unreasonable risk of injury.”

The EPA banned the carcinogen in March, long after its dangers first became widely known.

More than 50 other countries have outlawed use of the mineral.

The agency had worked toward the ban for decades, and workers died while lobbyists pushed to delay action, as a 2022 ProPublica investigation showed.

propublica.org/article/david-f

ProPublicaDonald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
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These guys are completely CRAZY - CRAZY!!! They don't give a damn about the planet, air quality, global warming, or just plain saving lives by following the scientific method. They just care about profiting - even if that means damaging the environment. This time, the inmates are really running the asylum!!

"The man tapped by President Donald Trump to be second-in-command of the federal agency that protects the public from environmental dangers is a lawyer who has represented companies accused of harming people and the environment through pollution.

David Fotouhi, a partner in the global law firm Gibson Dunn, played a key part in rolling back climate regulations and water protections while serving as a lawyer in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first administration.

Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. In a brief filed in October on behalf of a group of car companies called the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, he argued that, for the specific uses that were banned, the “EPA failed to demonstrate that chrysotile asbestos presents an unreasonable risk of injury.”

The EPA banned the carcinogen in March, long after its dangers first became widely known. More than 50 other countries have outlawed use of the mineral. The agency had worked toward the ban for decades, and workers died while lobbyists pushed to delay action, as a 2022 ProPublica investigation showed.

Less than a day after Trump’s inauguration this week, the White House webpage that celebrated the historic ban was gone."

propublica.org/article/david-f

ProPublicaDonald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
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#USA#Pollution#EPA