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Why. Just why. This is so stupid. It's taken decades to make progress on current abatement efforts. This is only going to make more people sick with cancer for

Why. Just why. This is so stupid. It's taken decades to make progress on current abatement efforts. This is only going to make more people sick with cancer for decades to come. As the article mentions, it's been completely banned in other countries for since the 1970s. Many alternatives for it's various uses exist. There is literally no need for this.

craftyguy 7y ago
You can't "make america great again" unless you regress.
- hanniabu 7y ago
  There was never any intention to make America great. It was just a phrase used because it's what people wanted to hear and they ate it up.
  - craftyguy 7y ago
    (that's the joke)
- krapp 7y ago
  >You can't "make america great again" unless you regress. That is actually one of the fundamental features of populism, an attempt to return to a former (imaginary and fictitous) "golden age" whose promise has been stolen and corrupted by scapegoats and enemies (in the case of Trumpism, those being progressives, environmentalists and immigrants.)
Ancalagon 7y ago
Right. This definitely feels like a 1 step forward, two steps back deal. Side note: Its all the more hilarious that Trump's face, encircled in Russian, is now plastered over the cancer-inducing asbestos pallets.
save_ferris 7y ago
> As The Post covered, Trump has long been vocal about his skepticism about the harmful effects of asbestos, claiming in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, that anti-asbestos efforts were “led by the mob.” Conspiracy theories are a helluva drug.
- gambiting 7y ago
  Tbf it's my understanding that at one point in NYC all asbestos removal was controlled by the mafia, but obviously Trump completely misunderstood the issue and repeated whatever stupid nonsense came up in his head.
hanniabu 7y ago
Why? Because once Trump took office, the people heading the EPA have all been replaced with people that are actively against the environment, ecosystem, climate change, and are very pro big business.
clumsysmurf 7y ago
Trump has disdain for the EPA, and one reason why Scott Pruitt was chosen was because of his disdain for asbestos regulation. > During Pruitt’s confirmation hearings, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey asked Pruitt whether he would allow the EPA to ban asbestos. Pruitt responded evasively, saying he would seek the “input of a wide range of stakeholders to ensure sound and inclusive rulemaking and not to produce or dismiss comments from one particular entity. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safety-case-effort-ban-asbestos/ https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safe... As for the larger picture of why republicans are going this way, this book explains the trends: "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump" https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safety-case-effort-ban-asbestos/ https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safe...
abvdasker 7y ago
It's probably not stupidity, it's corruption. Near the end of the article it makes a note that the largest asbestos mining and export company is Russian and now stamps its products with Donald Trump's face.

craftyguy 7y ago

You can't "make america great again" unless you regress.

hanniabu 7y ago
There was never any intention to make America great. It was just a phrase used because it's what people wanted to hear and they ate it up.
- craftyguy 7y ago
  (that's the joke)
krapp 7y ago
>You can't "make america great again" unless you regress. That is actually one of the fundamental features of populism, an attempt to return to a former (imaginary and fictitous) "golden age" whose promise has been stolen and corrupted by scapegoats and enemies (in the case of Trumpism, those being progressives, environmentalists and immigrants.)

Ancalagon 7y ago

Right. This definitely feels like a 1 step forward, two steps back deal. Side note: Its all the more hilarious that Trump's face, encircled in Russian, is now plastered over the cancer-inducing asbestos pallets.

save_ferris 7y ago

> As The Post covered, Trump has long been vocal about his skepticism about the harmful effects of asbestos, claiming in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, that anti-asbestos efforts were “led by the mob.” Conspiracy theories are a helluva drug.

gambiting 7y ago
Tbf it's my understanding that at one point in NYC all asbestos removal was controlled by the mafia, but obviously Trump completely misunderstood the issue and repeated whatever stupid nonsense came up in his head.

hanniabu 7y ago

Why? Because once Trump took office, the people heading the EPA have all been replaced with people that are actively against the environment, ecosystem, climate change, and are very pro big business.

clumsysmurf 7y ago

Trump has disdain for the EPA, and one reason why Scott Pruitt was chosen was because of his disdain for asbestos regulation. > During Pruitt’s confirmation hearings, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey asked Pruitt whether he would allow the EPA to ban asbestos. Pruitt responded evasively, saying he would seek the “input of a wide range of stakeholders to ensure sound and inclusive rulemaking and not to produce or dismiss comments from one particular entity. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safety-case-effort-ban-asbestos/ https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safe... As for the larger picture of why republicans are going this way, this book explains the trends: "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump" https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safety-case-effort-ban-asbestos/ https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/deregulating-safe...

abvdasker 7y ago

It's probably not stupidity, it's corruption. Near the end of the article it makes a note that the largest asbestos mining and export company is Russian and now stamps its products with Donald Trump's face.