There is no way any company would use asbestos for anything.
Asbestos is and has always been used in construction for many years.
I just spent the whole day at a major wireless company summit and our environmental regulators gave us countless examples of how asbestos is STILL being used to this day.
Asbestos has never been eliminate in manufacturing. It just does not go into commercial ventures like homes / buildings. Think rubber Rocket booster seals and whatnot. No reason for worry until we see if there is any devil in the details.
Johns-Manville is owned by Warren Buffett, no?
Just sayin...
Will he allow lead in paint again? Will he let, oh, never mind.
Is? Will? Might? Could?
Typical speculative BS by the MSM.
Roof coatings are next to worthless since the Asbestos fibers were removed. They have never found anything else to use that is even close.
The elimination of asbestos was one of the greatest disasters of the last century.
Yes, if you stand in a closed space and spray chrysolite out of a hose with no mask for twelve hours, and you do it for years, there is a cancer risk.
Going to school in a building with asbestos insulated pipes is entirely safe.
Hope this isn’t true....
Why?
The asbestos scare has been completely overhyped.
Abestosis is an issue for people exposed to high levels of asbestos on a daily basis for years with no respiratory equipment.
Asbestos is a rock naturally occurring in the mountains. The outdoor air in the Adirondacks exceeds the allegedly safe levels for indoor air quality set by NYS.
Especially on a windy day when the winds are out of the NW from the cliffs in Canada on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
I’ve worked in a coal-fired power plant for 38 years. We still find asbestos, but the threat is WAY overhyped.
A lot of it, we know the exact location, but it is totally harmless in its present condition.
Sometimes, though we have to abate it. Funny story, when I took my asbestos abatement supervisor course, our instructor told me about Sweet Sweet Connie, who had graduated that course. When she was handed her certificate, she said “I guess now I’m a Master Abater”!
Asbestos is no where near the danger it has been made out to be. Truth is outside the US it is still used a lot.
The biggest problem is manufacturing and some handling of it should it become friable.
Asbestos is still one of the best insulations and fire proof materials available and we need to start using it again with proper controls.
The environmental housing movement needs a boogyman to prop up the boogyman removal industries.
The first I noticed was Asbestos.
Then Radon gas.
Then Mold.
The latest comes to you via the pest control industry. They are getting thousands of dollars to permanently seal crawl spaces with vapor barrier plastic across the ground and up the sides of the foundation.
Asbestos is great stuff.
Don’t breath it in. Or drink Clorox. Or combine Clorox and ammonium. Or eat rat poison. Or douse yourself with gasoline and light a match. Or stick a fork in a wall socket.
“Hope this isn’t true.... “
I don’t left the Left tell me what I can use and what I cannot use. I let safety and common sense make that decision.
In the case of asbestos, it’s a mixed bag. You certainly don’t want to liberate the fibers, and then breathe them, but that doesn’t mean asbestos is pure evil, either.
My grandparents ate greasy food, painted their houses with lead paint, used leaded gas, had asbestos covering their pipes, wore asbestos gloves to take pots off the stove, used dry cleaning solvent to clean their shotguns (it really works well) and all four some how manged to live well into their 80s.
One of my grandparents told me that humans are programmed to worry. In his day they worried about starvation, infection and war. Since starvation, infection and war are pretty remote reasons for death in your average family, we worry about things at the margin.
This is why Republicans are called the stupid party. Senseless.
Asbestos is like any other hazardous material, learn to work with it safety and you will be okay.
So what if he is?
Why are you concerned? Might want to brush up on asbestos use before biting on this piece of rotten bait....