EPA bans the most common form of cancer-causing asbestos
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 18, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a ban on chrysotile asbestos, part of a family of toxic minerals linked to lung cancer and other illnesses that the agency estimates is responsible for about 40,000 U.S. deaths each year.
The federal ban comes more than 30 years after the EPA first . . .
