https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...estos-Emails-reveal-concern-from-agency-staff
Donald Trump is an asbestos denier, one of a rarefied few who makes Flat Earth believers look brilliant by throwing doubt at the connection between asbestos and lung cancer. And the EPA, Trump’s go-to agency when it comes to making day-to-day life worse for everyone, recently followed Trump’s lead by promoting a rule that makes it easier for asbestos to make its way back into consumer goods. However, as the New York Times reports, there was an agency where everyone seemed to be united against the action taken by the EPA. And it was the EPA.
Emails exchanged within the agency show the agency’s scientists, analysts, and legal staff were united in complaining that there is “no clear explanation” for the change, and in expressing concern over the possible expanded use of a toxic substance. Despite Trump’s statement that asbestos is “100 percent safe” and his claims that asbestos removal is a plot by the mob, EPA personnel had a very different position.
Donald Trump is an asbestos denier, one of a rarefied few who makes Flat Earth believers look brilliant by throwing doubt at the connection between asbestos and lung cancer. And the EPA, Trump’s go-to agency when it comes to making day-to-day life worse for everyone, recently followed Trump’s lead by promoting a rule that makes it easier for asbestos to make its way back into consumer goods. However, as the New York Times reports, there was an agency where everyone seemed to be united against the action taken by the EPA. And it was the EPA.
Emails exchanged within the agency show the agency’s scientists, analysts, and legal staff were united in complaining that there is “no clear explanation” for the change, and in expressing concern over the possible expanded use of a toxic substance. Despite Trump’s statement that asbestos is “100 percent safe” and his claims that asbestos removal is a plot by the mob, EPA personnel had a very different position.
