TIL asbestos in the United States has not been banned and is totally legal. When the Environmental Protection Agency tried to ban it, supporters of the asbestos industry actually overturned the ban in a lawsuit. It is still widely used in products to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#United_States



Submitted February 23, 2015 at 02:23AM by D3M01 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wsni6/til_asbestos_in_the_united_states_has_not_been/