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지난해 바이든 정부가 했던 미국 내 백석면 사용 금지를 재고려할 수 있다는 미국 환경보호청(EPA)의 의견이 연방법원 항소심에서 있었습니다. 당시 EPA는 암과의 싸움에서 위대한 이정표라고 불렀습니다.
EPA는 향후 약 30개월간 바이든 정부의 법안을 재고려할 것이며, 유해물질관리법은 화학물질의 위험성과 규제에 따른 결과 등을 평가해야 한다고 밝혔습니다.
브레이크 블록, 석면격벽(diaphragms), 개스킷에 사용되는 백석면은 유해물질관리법에 따라 금지되었습니다. 미국 내 석면격벽을 사용하는 8개의 클로르알칼리 제조업계는 시설을 교체하는데 최소 5년이 필요하다고 하며, 염소와 수산화나트륨은 보통 물 소독제로 사용되고 있습니다.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal appeals court it will reconsider the Biden administration’s ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States to determine whether it went “beyond what is necessary.”
Asbestos is linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually and causes mesothelioma as well as other cancers. It has been largely phased out in the United States. Last year, the Biden administration sought to finish the decades-long fight by banning chrysotile asbestos. At the time, the EPA called it a milestone in the fight against cancer.
The EPA on Monday said in a court filing that it would reconsider the Biden administration’s rule over roughly the next 30 months. The agency said the Toxic Substances Control Act requires it to evaluate a chemical’s risk and the consequences of restricting it.
Now, officials will look at whether parts of the ban “went beyond what is necessary to eliminate the unreasonable risk and whether alternative measures — such as requiring permanent workplace protection measures — would eliminate the unreasonable risk,” according to a court declaration by Lynn Ann Dekleva, a senior official in EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
Chrysotile asbestos is found in products like brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016. When the ban was announced, there were eight U.S. facilities that used asbestos diaphragms in the chlor-alkali sector for the manufacture of chlorine and sodium hydroxide, chemicals commonly used as water disinfectants. The facilities were given at least five years to make the change.
The development was first reported by The New York Times.
Advocates blasted the move as weakening prohibitions against a deadly carcinogen.
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EPA will revisit Biden-era ban on the last type of asbestos used in US 
