Abstract
In a win for environmental and public health groups, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 12 committed to broadening and speeding up its review of the health risks of asbestos under two legal settlements . Asbestos is one of the first 10 substances the EPA evaluated under the 2016 revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The agency released its final assessment Dec. 30, 2020, finding unreasonable risks to workers and consumers who handle many products containing asbestos, including chlor-alkali diaphragms the chemical industry uses to produce chlorine. But the EPA did not evaluate risks from legacy uses of asbestos, such as insulation and other construction materials that are still found in older buildings. The agency also did not consider all forms of asbestos and instead focused only on chrysotile, the type of asbestos imported into the US. The EPA said it would assess legacy uses in a
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