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EPA Readies Review Of Asbestos Risk Finding Despite Calls For Delay


March 31, 2020 at 12:27 PM
EPA is moving ahead with a planned scientific review of its just-released draft evaluation of asbestos, which found the substance poses unreasonable risk to workers, consumers and others, despite calls from science advisors and other critics who had urged the agency to delay the review until after the coronavirus pandemic.

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