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Wasn’t the use and manufacture of asbestos banned?

April 26, 2017asbestos banned manufacture

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Wasn’t the use and manufacture of asbestos banned?

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In 1989, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the “Asbestos: Manufacture, Importation, Processing, and Distribution in Commerce Prohibitions; Final Rule” (40 CFR Part 763, Subpart I). The rule would have eventually banned about 94 percent of the asbestos used in the US (based on 1985 estimates). However, in 1991, the US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, vacated and remanded the majority of the rule. Currently, the manufacture, importation, processing and distribution of most asbestos-containing products is still legal. To learn more about the overturning of the asbestos ban, go to EPA’s website.