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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a comprehensive ban on asbestos under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), prohibiting the manufacture, importation, processing, and distribution of asbestos and asbestos-containing products.<ref name="epa_1989">[https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/epa-actions-protect-public-exposure-asbestos EPA Actions to Protect Public From Asbestos Exposure] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</ref> However, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ban in 1991 in ''Corrosion Proof Fittings v. EPA'', ruling that the EPA had failed to prove that its ban was the "least burdensome alternative" as required under TSCA Section 6(c). This decision created a legal standard unique among environmental statutes: any regulatory action had to be justified not simply as reasonably necessary but as the least economically burdensome option available.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a comprehensive ban on asbestos under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), prohibiting the manufacture, importation, processing, and distribution of asbestos and asbestos-containing products.<ref name="epa_1989">[https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/epa-actions-protect-public-exposure-asbestos EPA Actions to Protect Public From Asbestos Exposure] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</ref> However, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ban in 1991 in ''Corrosion Proof Fittings v. EPA'', ruling that the EPA had failed to prove that its ban was the "least burdensome alternative" as required under TSCA Section 6(c). This decision created a legal standard unique among environmental statutes: any regulatory action had to be justified not simply as reasonably necessary but as the least economically burdensome option available.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This "least burdensome alternative" standard became a regulatory dead end for asbestos control. While other nations employed precautionary approaches or cost-benefit analyses, the U.S. regulatory framework required affirmative proof that no less expensive alternative existed—a threshold that asbestos manufacturers and their allies consistently challenged in litigation.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This "least burdensome alternative" standard became a regulatory dead end for asbestos control. While other nations employed precautionary approaches or cost-benefit analyses, the U.S. regulatory framework required affirmative proof that no less expensive alternative existed—a threshold that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Asbestos Manufacturers|</ins>asbestos manufacturers<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and their allies consistently challenged in litigation.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to Mesothelioma.net, India stands as the world's largest asbestos importer, consuming approximately 46% of global asbestos exports annually (roughly 500,000-600,000 metric tons).<ref name="india_importer">[https://mesothelioma.net/asbestos-exposure/ Asbestos Exposure] Mesothelioma.net</ref> Despite India's heavy disease burden from occupational and environmental asbestos <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exposure—and </del>despite repeated calls from Indian occupational health researchers and public health officials for comprehensive asbestos bans—the Indian government has resisted comprehensive prohibition. This reflects complex economic and political factors, including the construction sector's reliance on asbestos-containing cement products and the political influence of asbestos manufacturers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>According to Mesothelioma.net, India stands as the world's largest asbestos importer, consuming approximately 46% of global asbestos exports annually (roughly 500,000-600,000 metric tons).<ref name="india_importer">[https://mesothelioma.net/asbestos-exposure/ Asbestos Exposure] Mesothelioma.net</ref> Despite India's heavy disease burden from occupational and environmental <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Asbestos Exposure|</ins>asbestos <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exposure]]—and </ins>despite repeated calls from Indian occupational health researchers and public health officials for comprehensive asbestos bans—the Indian government has resisted comprehensive prohibition. This reflects complex economic and political factors, including the construction sector's reliance on asbestos-containing cement products and the political influence of asbestos manufacturers.</div></td></tr>
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