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3. One Russian company seems thrilled with Trump's move on asbestos

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 01:03 PM

Aug 2018

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1351489/trumps-asbestos-move-thrills-one-russian-company/amp/

One Russian company seems thrilled with Trump’s move on asbestos

Environmental Working Group surfaced the post and provided a translation from the Russian:

"Donald is on our side! … He supported the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who stated that his agency would no longer deal with negative effects potentially derived from products containing asbestos. Donald Trump supported a specialist and called asbestos “100% safe after application.”

Brazil, where the US once got 95% of its asbestos, moved to shut down its asbestos mining industry completely in 2017. But in Russia, asbestos mining has held on.

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