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About asbestos in the USA

Apparantly, the Trump administration is taking measures to counter the planned ban (from the Biden administration) of asbestos in the USA.

Check this Arc Technica article (archived here)

From the article, from June 17th, 2025:

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Trump supports the use of asbestos. In his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote that asbestos is “100% safe, once applied,” and blamed the mob for its reputation as a carcinogen, writing: “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.”

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.”

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