EPA Still Evading Warning Public About Asbestos-Tainted Zonolite Insulation
The Environmental Protection Agency turned 40 years old this month, and public health and safety experts say the agency has set a new low in failing to protect millions of people at risk from the cancer-causing, asbestos-tainted insulation detailed in last week’s AOL News series, “A Killer in the Attic.”
The agency also refuses to explain why it is shirking its mandated responsibility to publicize what its own scientists have proved for years to be the extreme danger from even gently disturbing asbestos-laden vermiculite in insulation that was sold until the late 1990s as Zonolite.
Environment Canada
Many readers of the AOL News series “A Killer in the Attic” asked what vermiculite looks like. This is a photo of Zonolite vermiculite from a Canadian government agency.
“For decades, the EPA has known about the risks Zonolite could pose to millions of American households, but a mix of brute politics, internal agency disputes and old-fashioned foot dragging has left families without the information needed to protect themselves,”