EPA Finds Asbestos Rule Needed to Protect Workers, Consumers (1)

Discontinued uses of asbestos and the disposal of products once made with the cancer-causing mineral have so much potential to harm the health of exposed people that the EPA must develop a rule to reduce that possibility, the agency said on Wednesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final analysis of the legacy uses and associated disposals of the six types of asbestos that were once used to make thousands of industrial, commercial, and consumer products.

Domestic manufacturers have largely stopped using those minerals, and the EPA has ordered companies to phase out the few remaining uses of chrysotile asbestos, ...