To be clear here: This is reversing a ban on ONE type of asbestos that’s often used in automotive parts (such as brake pads). They’re not advocating for us to bring it back for things like loose fill insulation, building materials, etc.
Also, to be clear: It’s still stupid and likely a combination of Russia being the largest producer of Asbestos and/or Trump having an obsession with overturning Biden-era rulings.
Trump actually has a personal fascination with asbestos and thinks it’s a miracle material. He’s talked about it a lot in his speeches.
It does have some excellent use cases. Asbestos tile was probably everywhere you walked in school and is extremely durable and perfectly safe (unless you cut it with a saw). My house is covered in asbestos siding and is basically unphased in appearance since it was installed in 1964 by the Texas sun.
However, any situation where it can cause it to be airborne, such as brake pads, insulation, etc. is no bueno. It’s a kind of incredible material IN VERY SPECIFIC USE CASES.
Like most materials science, there are tradeoffs. R22 was a great refrigerant compared to R410a or the newer R32 that required way less pressure to be effective, but it also burned holes in the atmosphere, hence it isn’t used anymore. Asbestos is an incredible material, but so is flurooantiminic acid and I wouldn’t want it anywhere near me.
Right, but Trump thinks it’s magic. I suspect he saw a demonstration of the material by some construction company (he is a real estate guy) and it blew his mind.
And now we get asbestos brake pads.
Listen, I eat and breathe asbestos every day. I’m healthy as fuck. Libs want you to be afraid of things that cause cancer. Don’t listen to them. /s
I wish all trump supporters would get cancer and die. Not /s.
I swear to god I was reading a comment on lemmy not 2 months ago that was joking about them bringing back asbestos. C’mon, don’t be shy. Which one of you jinxed it?
Might have been me. Looks like leaded gas is back on the menu boys.
Irradiated plateware licking it’s lips as we speak.
So long as you don’t eat the radioactive material you should be perfectly fine. Hence why we should not put it on plates.
Quick, only think of good things that they banned. No, no, no! Not Lawn Darts!
“Buckyballs” and other small magnet fidget toys. (For adults only of course!)
Bold of you to assume that a large number of adults are smart enough not to eat them. Just look at the Marines…
Kinder Surprise eggs.
Leaded pipes were pretty great too!
Chlorofluorocarbons made the best hair sprays, why not bring those back? The ozone layer is leftist propaganda anyway
Trump already tried it, or at least dip the toe, on the first term. It was just a question of when.
Russia is the world’s largest producer of asbestos, with an annual production of around 630,000 million metric tons in 2023.
Why settle for the knock off asbestos when you can have the original?
If it’s not from Asbestos then it’s just sparkling mesothelioma
Next up is lead in gasoline.
I recently learned that leaded gas is still used for aviation. Some small planes like Cessnas can be 80 years old and still flying, but do not have engines that are certified to run on leaded gas. So they have leaded.
they also use it at the race track near our houses. up to 20% of the races use leaded fuel. They just tried (again) to ban it but once again the rich white guys get to have their fun at the expense of an entire community.
There has to be a joke about NASCAR on there somewhere. I don’t know if they used leaded fuel or not.
Yup, learned that when I was a pesticide handler for one of these operations. Pretty fucked up that they fly these lead gas planes over our crops, huh?
Don’t worry, someone is profiting off this
Oof, I didn’t even think of that.
Same direction, backwards
“What is the absolute dumbest fucking thing we can do this afternoon? I know!”
Remember kids, congress could put a stop to this tonight. And by “this”, I mean the trump presidency. Just think about that for a while.
Time to re-lead the gasoline too, I guess.
Next up: OSHA no longer exists.
Hoggish Greedly: “This is too much for even me, and I’m a Captain Planet villain!”
I am required by my state to complete 2hrs of asbestos safety training a year, and i dont even work with it directly. It is crazy dangerous and my jaw is on the floor that this is real.
I did not have “asbestos returns” on my 2025 bingo card. What’s next, DDT?
Putting my money on CFCs, he probably thinks 80s hair sprays were way better
Wait wait - radium watches.
Freon baby! I want my shit to be cold again!
Halon to the rescue!
Leaded gas and paint, wcgw
All heavy metals back in paints and pigments! Do you know how hard it is to find enough Scheele’s green wallpaper even for just one room?
Naww… there’s way worse
Leaded gas, arsenic green, Prussian blue, and mercury in everything.
Agent Orange
I guess other countries won’t need to defend themselves against the US in the future because Trump is actively trying to kill off more Americans than any other country could.
Invasions are probably still funded, though they may be driven by the masters in Russia and Israel. Also all damage to the environment hurts all of us. There is no planet b.
Have to generate as much cancer as possible! The MAGA death cult in action.
And then cut healthcare, both public and veteran
Make Asbestos Great Again?
Make America (have) mesothelioma again!
Before you do something stupid - No, you WON’T be allowed to fly over Europe with your leaded fuel-powered airplanes, America
Avgas has always been leaded, they never stopped using it.
send him in
Wild to think this guy might literally have killed me
He fires vax experts, another pandemic hits, we scramble but it’s too late… maybe you die, maybe me, maybe us both.
Wild
If you our a loved one has mesothelioma… blame the Trump administration
SCOTUS “we’ve decided that the POTUS cannot be sued for official acts”
