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David Fotouhi, 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 who 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.
The Trump administration plans to reconsider a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the United States, according to a court filing on Monday.
The move, which could halt enforcement of the ban for several years during the reconsideration, is a major blow to a decades-long battle by health advocates to prohibit the carcinogenic mineral in all its forms.
Known as “white” asbestos, chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.Hey, what's a little mesothelioma, amirite?
Surely, republicans here will tell us what a 4D chess move this is and why stoopid liberals should just shut up and get lung cancer to help manufacturers save a nickel on gaskets, clutches, and brake pads and dontchaknow we lost the election so we deserve to die a slow, painful death from cancer.
nytimes.com - Epa trump asbestos ban delay 