Killer in the Attic: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings

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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.

"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," Alex Formuzis of the Environmental Working Group told AOL News this week.

"Labeling this inaction an outrage is an understatement. Why EPA cannot move forward with warning the public about this potentially deadly house guest living in their attics is hard for most folks to understand."

http://www.aolnews.com/killer-in-the-attic/article/epa-still-evading-warning-public-about-asbestos-tainted-zonolite-insulation/19750684

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1. Quick! How can we blame the President?