EPA Evaluation Finds Nine Legacy Asbestos Uses Pose ‘Unreasonable’ Risk

EPA has preliminarily determined that many activities that disturb legacy asbestos -- such as demolition of older buildings that were constructed with the material -- pose “unreasonable risk” to human health, the legal threshold for new TSCA rules, according to the agency’s just-released draft of its long-awaited “part 2” evaluation of the mineral. The April 15 draft lists nine “conditions of use” for legacy asbestos that EPA preliminarily concludes “contribute to the unreasonable risks of cancer and non-cancer health effects”...