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Article: EPA to ban all asbestos
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 23, 1986
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WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency, saying no amount
of asbestos is safe for humans, announced today it intends to
immediately ban five product categories containing the cancer-causing
substance and to phase out all other asbestos use over the next 10
years.
"We are taking this action because of the significant and
well-documented threat to health that asbestos represents," EPA
Administrator Lee M. Thomas said.
Thomas estimated it could take the agency as long as a year to
complete work on banning the five product categories, which he said
account for about one-third to one-half of the estimated 300,000
metric tons of asbestos used annually.
Four of the product categories ...