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The US just announced an asbestos ban.

The US has announced a ban on the only form of asbestos currently used or imported into the US, decades after most developed nations began phasing out the cancer-causing raw material.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) move comes after it failed to ban asbestos over three decades ago.

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