Well, I'll be! Asbestos! It's back!

[Tommy Carcetti]

What the ever living fuck?

What's next? Lead in our gas and paint?

Link to tweet

Mónica Rhor 🇪🇨 @monicarhor

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

9:34 AM · Jun 17, 2025 · 11 Views

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/epa-trump-asbestos-ban-delay.html

[kwolf68]

1. My goodness

I truly don't get it.

[purple_haze]

2. its in extremely limited use

[Scrivener7]

17. Because what's a few cases of mesothelioma? No one will have insurance to be diagosed with it anyway.

[Torchlight]

37. Relative to what?

[sheshe2]

3. Mesothelioma killed my BIL.

[Easterncedar]

6. Sorry for your brother in law. It's an awful disease.

[sheshe2]

14. He worked on industrial ovens as a welder when he was young.

It killed him in his 50’s.

[obamanut2012]

9. And my uncle, and it was a bad, drawn-out death

[sheshe2]

15. So sorry for your uncle's passing.

[obamanut2012]

22. Thank you

After a terrible 18 months, he refused all further treatment or care, and died three weeks later, surrounded by his wife and dogs at home.

[SheltieLover]

29. So saddened to hear this, She.

[sheshe2]

61. My sister home cared for him, while still working.

He died the day before Thanksgiving and two weeks after my dad passed away. It was a hard year.

Ty,SheltieLover. 💙

[SheltieLover]

66. Deepest condolences, She

So sorry you had such a tough year.

[Easterncedar]

4. Yikes

40 or so years ago I worked on monitoring big removal projects. That stuff is scary. It gets airborne and then it doesn’t take any great exposure before mesothelioma may develop. Smoking makes your odds much much worse, so maybe it’s time to repeal all those smoking restrictions while he’s at it.

[spanone]

5. FUCKING INSANE

Yes, let's put lead back in paint.

Let's take seat belts out of cars

Let's make candy cigarettes too.

THIS ADMINISTRATION IS THE ENEMY OF US.

[jeffreyi]

18. Heck, leaded gasoline worked much better than the current stuff.

Let's bring that back, too. And to take care,of the flies and maggots around the rotting corpses from the poisoned gasoline...what could be better than that old standbye, DDT?

[getagrip_already]

34. Ddt is already being reconsidered...

That was announced recently.

[Clouds Passing]

7. Make Americans Poisoned Again

[kwolf68]

8. So what is the benefit to do this?

Is it cheaper?

This is absurd shit.

[Omnipresent]

10. No doubt, an industry CEO thought..

“Trump will be on board for this, as long as we give him a big check!”.

[sop]

11. Trump will establish a market for trading asbestos futures contracts, make a killing when it's legal again.

[Turbineguy]

13. It's the best heat insulator there is.

But....

[Liberal In Texas]

12. They really are trying to kill us!

I've seen a lot of patients with mesothelioma in my time working in legal support recording their depositions. This is a horrible disease and completely preventable with banning the substance.

[Walleye]

16. Trump hates us so much he wants us to die. No shit.

[tonekat]

41. The feeling is mutual. N/T

[Walleye]

62. Oh yeah, truer words were never spoken

I’m hoping our next large protest is dingdong the witch is dead.

[Irish_Dem]

19. The GOP is intent on killing as many of us as possible.

For the purpose of making money and their cruelty.

[John1956PA]

24. Next up, mining for asbestos in lands which will be transfered . . .

. . . from the federal government to Trump's cronies.

[countingbluecars]

20. I believe most asbestos

comes from Russia. Surprise, surprise.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

32. A country which doesn't have any tariffs on its exports to us.

Another “surprise, surprise”.

[Old Crow]

40. Absolutely.

Russia is the largest producer of asbestos, with an annual output of around 630,000 metric tons in 2023. That's more than double the output of the second-largest produced (Kazakhstan).

[rsdsharp]

64. A lot of it came from Canada.

[twodogsbarking]

21. It doesn't kill you right away. You get to suffer indefinitely.

[Bristlecone]

23. Soon we will return to doctors endorsing cigarette smoking

Freedom!

[peggysue2]

26. Yes, the freedom to die prematurely.

[Old Crow]

42. Only if they're being manufactured by Russia.

Trump is an absolute effing STOOGE for Putin. He will trash the safety and health of Americans in a heartbeat if it benefits Vladimir in some way.

[jmowreader]

25. Make Butte, Montana, great again!

America’s biggest asbestos mine was in Butte. I don’t recommend ever going there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. Libby MT is where they mined asbestos

Many people in the town came down with mesothelioma.

Butte is the location of the nation's deepest copper strip mine.

[jmowreader]

52. They didn't intentionally mine asbestos in Libby

WR Grace was mining vermiculite, which is a rock that gets fluffy if it’s heated up enough, in Libby. At one point 80 percent of the world’s supply of this very useful mineral came from there. This stuff has millions of uses - insulation, fireproofing, plant growing medium…they even use it as fake snow in the movies. What no one realized until half the town came down with mesothelioma is the Libby mine is heavily contaminated with white asbestos. Since you can’t clean the asbestos from the vermiculite, they had no choice but to close the mine.

Butte is also an asbestos source. I suspect everything east of the Idaho state line has asbestos deposits. There might be some in the Silver Valley, but the ore Hecla is looking for formed below where asbestos is so there are no issues with it in the Lucky Friday and Sunshine mines.

[chouchou]

27. Double cool! Asbestos is the Bestest !!

[SheltieLover]

28. What's next? Leaded gasoline?

[dchill]

31. At this point, why not?

[SheltieLover]

45. Dead Americans seems to be their goal, so why not?

[dchill]

63. It certainly fits that narrative.

[SheltieLover]

65. Sadly, it does.

[dchill]

30. There really aren't words.

[iluvtennis]

33. Absolute madness.

[orangecrush]

35. Christ almighty.

Stop them or they will kill us.

[Ocelot II]

36. Hey, why not a touch of mesothelioma to go with our lead poisoning, measles,

covid, smallpox, cholera and typhoid? Like Senator Ernst told us, everybody dies. What's the problem?

[kkmarie]

38. The US gets asbestos from Russia

Russia is the sole exporter of asbestos
https://www.mesotheliomalawyers-blog.com/asbestos-still-used-us-russia-main-supplier/#:~:text=Prior%20to%20this%20ban%2C%20exports,country%20exporting%20asbestos%20the%20U.S.

Remember when russia stamped Krasnov's picture to the pallets of asbestos. The article says it was just a stunt but it did make the news.
Pictures at link
]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/07/11/approved-by-donald-trump-asbestos-sold-by-russian-company-is-branded-with-the-presidents-face/

Of course Krasnov wants to make sure russia is protected.

[Old Crow]

48. Thanks for reminding me -- Link below for photo of Trump's face printed on bags of Russian asbestos

If you haven't seen the images, here's one:

https://imgur.com/a/SCfIQ7U

[hadEnuf]

39. We are nothing more than commodities to these psychos.

And some actually like it.

[1WorldHope]

43. He needs to be removed from office ASAP.

This has gone on far too long.

[erronis]

46. What's next? Reading the "lord's prayer" every morning in public classrooms.

[twodogsbarking]

49. Not in Spanish. Scary, ain't it?

[Wicked Blue]

47. J&J is probably panting to put it back in baby powder

After all, who cares about the already-born. It's fetuses that matter in MAGAworld.

[Tarzanrock]

50. Those evil motherfuckers should all get mesothelioma --

where the tumor grows to the size of a basketball on the victim's chest and the victim suffocates to death. Fuck all these evil, criminal Assholes! Vote all of them out of office and to Hell and gone!

[lapfog_1]

51. My father died from asbestos cancer

he was in the Navy and served aboard a Navy destroyer for most of WW2.

You could SEE the asbestos that was lodged in his lung on the xray. By the time it was discovered, it was too late to do anything.

Fuckers!

[twodogsbarking]

54. So sorry. Fuckers they are.

[Buddyzbuddy]

53. It's all about the money.

Many older commercial buildings still have asbestos. They can be money pits for investors and developers. Or, if asbestos is deregulated it can be a windfall. Buy them cheap now and strip out the asbestos without all of those pesky enviromental and safety regulations. They know the deregulation would be temporary. $$$

[twodogsbarking]

55. Trump's pants are made of asbestos. What other logical conclusion is there?

[Vinca]

56. Make lung cancer great again.

[tanyev]

57. Is Secretary of Health RFK Jr cool with that?

Maybe he found a YouTube video where a self-taught scientist talks about the health benefits of asbestos that “they” don’t want you to know about.

[gab13by13]

58. Asbestos is in our water supply, through the cast iron pipes.

Our small town has pristine water but I won't drink it. The main water line that supplies my water contains asbestos. The yearly Municipal water report showed our water has levels of asbestos above allowable amounts.

Our town is starting to replace our lines, starting with the wealthy side of town.

[usedtobedemgurl]

59. MATA

Make America Toxic Again

[Tree Lady]

60. My father died from cancer caused by asbestos

Trump is insane, he and his tribe have to go before they kill us all...

[Rhiannon12866]

67. I am so sorry, I lost my Dad to cancer as well, probably because he started smoking at 14

[Tree Lady]

68. Thanks he was my person

My best friend. Sorry for your loss too.

I loved my mom but we were never close. She lived to 96 he died at 75 in 2000. I was just happy he didn't have to see Bush and Trump. That would have killed him just from that. He was a firm democrat who watched hours of news a night. Watched all the watergate stuff. I used to watch it with him as an early teen.