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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 24 days ago

Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos

arstechnica.com

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Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos

arstechnica.com

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 24 days ago
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Trump has supported use of asbestos and blamed the mob for its bad reputation.
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  • @[email protected]
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    17•24 days ago

    Have to generate as much cancer as possible! The MAGA death cult in action.

    • @[email protected]
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      8•24 days ago

      And then cut healthcare, both public and veteran

  • Nougat
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    40•24 days ago

    I did not have “asbestos returns” on my 2025 bingo card. What’s next, DDT?

    • @[email protected]
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      7•24 days ago

      Agent Orange

    • @[email protected]
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      25•24 days ago

      Putting my money on CFCs, he probably thinks 80s hair sprays were way better

      • Nougat
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        17•24 days ago

        Wait wait - radium watches.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•24 days ago

          Naww… there’s way worse

        • @[email protected]
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          12•24 days ago

          Freon baby! I want my shit to be cold again!

          • RejZoR
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            5•24 days ago

            Halon to the rescue!

            • @[email protected]
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              4•23 days ago

              Leaded gas and paint, wcgw

              • @[email protected]
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                2•23 days ago

                All heavy metals back in paints and pigments! Do you know how hard it is to find enough Scheele’s green wallpaper even for just one room?

    • @[email protected]
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      14•24 days ago

      Leaded gas, arsenic green, Prussian blue, and mercury in everything.

  • @[email protected]
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    62•24 days ago

    “What is the absolute dumbest fucking thing we can do this afternoon? I know!”

    Remember kids, congress could put a stop to this tonight. And by “this”, I mean the trump presidency. Just think about that for a while.

    • @[email protected]
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      6•23 days ago

      Time to re-lead the gasoline too, I guess.

      Next up: OSHA no longer exists.

  • cheers_queers
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    42•24 days ago

    I am required by my state to complete 2hrs of asbestos safety training a year, and i dont even work with it directly. It is crazy dangerous and my jaw is on the floor that this is real.

  • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє
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    4•24 days ago

    What’s next? Lead? Arsenic? Radium?

    • @[email protected]
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      5•24 days ago

      Sure! Clown world! JUST WHEN YOU THINK THEY CAN NOT GET ANOTHER CLOWN IN THAT CAR, BAM! ASBESTOS!

  • @[email protected]
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    If you our a loved one has mesothelioma… blame the Trump administration

    • @[email protected]
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      1•23 days ago

      SCOTUS “we’ve decided that the POTUS cannot be sued for official acts”

  • Bonus
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    5•24 days ago

    First, do harm.

  • @[email protected]
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    6•24 days ago

    send him in

    • @[email protected]
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      2•24 days ago

      Wild to think this guy might literally have killed me

      He fires vax experts, another pandemic hits, we scramble but it’s too late… maybe you die, maybe me, maybe us both.

      Wild

  • @[email protected]
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    2•24 days ago

    Don’t get any asbestos get the best asbestos.

  • qupada
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    Make Asbestos Great Again?

    • @[email protected]
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      7•24 days ago

      Make America (have) mesothelioma again!

  • @[email protected]
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    26•24 days ago

    I guess other countries won’t need to defend themselves against the US in the future because Trump is actively trying to kill off more Americans than any other country could.

    • TXL
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      1•23 days ago

      Invasions are probably still funded, though they may be driven by the masters in Russia and Israel. Also all damage to the environment hurts all of us. There is no planet b.

  • @[email protected]
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    9•24 days ago

    Before you do something stupid - No, you WON’T be allowed to fly over Europe with your leaded fuel-powered airplanes, America

    • qantravon
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      15•24 days ago

      Avgas has always been leaded, they never stopped using it.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas

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    Perfectly timed to draw attention awsy from Iran-Israel-(US)

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      1•23 days ago

      Using the war as a distraction

    • @[email protected]
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      1•23 days ago

      You think this is going to draw attention from a war? 🤣

  • @[email protected]
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    3•24 days ago

    HA! Quebec will be quite pleased, or horrified.

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    48•24 days ago

    Russia is the world’s largest producer of asbestos, with an annual production of around 630,000 million metric tons in 2023.

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      Why settle for the knock off asbestos when you can have the original?

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        11•23 days ago

        If it’s not from Asbestos then it’s just sparkling mesothelioma

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