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EPA staff opposed agency’s new rules on asbestos use, emails reveal

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Erin Durkin
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Emails obtained by New York Times show workers worried that companies could get away with using asbestos in ways the EPA did not list

The Environmental Protection Agency's own staffers objected to a controversial new US rule governing the use of cancer-causing asbestos, according to internal emails.

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