"In Reversal, Trump Administration Will Defend Biden’s Asbestos Ban" [1]
"The Trump administration says it will uphold a Biden-era ban on the ongoing use of asbestos after previously saying it would reconsider the rule.
In a court filing last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had said that it planned to pursue a rulemaking process that could make changes to the ban.
However, in a Monday court filing, it withdrew that previous motion, saying it “no longer intends to conduct … rulemaking to evaluate potential changes at this time.”
In an additional court filing, Lynn Dekleva, an official in the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, said that the administration could try to instead use a guidance to alter how the rule is implemented."
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Source: The Hill [2], 07/09/2025