To: President Donald Trump
Ban Asbestos in America
Asbestos kills 10,000 Americans every year according to WHO and CDC. That's more than all the wars post Vietnam in one year. Only these are not warriors. President Obama, please use your executive power to ban asbestos and let's join the other 60 countries that already have banned asbestos.
Why is this important?
EPA issued a Final Rule to ban and phase out asbestos in 1998. Two years later the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned EPA's ruling. Every year for the past 10 years there has been a bill introduced to Congress that calls for a ban on Asbestos. It never makes it through the House of Representatives. It is time to act. We simply can no longer allow 10,000 more Americans to die this year.