Overnight Energy: Dems look to bypass EPA with asbestos ban | California moves to ban ...
(WorldNews Environment)

DEMS WANT FASTER ACTION ON ASBESTOS BAN: House Democrats hope to sidestep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a bill that would ban asbestos within a year. In a Wednesday hearing before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, Democrats grilled EPA chemical staff on why the agency hasn`t taken more restrictive actions on the harmful substance three years after passing a law to give the agency more authority to regulate dangerous chemicals. `I wish today`s hearing wasn`t necessary and this bill wasn`t necessary, but asbestos is still being imported into the U.S. and still being used in this country, and still killing about 40,000 Americans every...