After more than three decades of inadequate protections, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a historic ban on ongoing uses of asbestos in the United States. This marks the first rule finalized under the nation's updated chemical safety law to protect public health, advance environmental justice, and end cancer.
This action represents an important step to advance the Biden Cancer Moonshot goal of reducing the cancer death rate by at least half by 2047.
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May 01, 2026 15:54 ET Central banks dominated the economics news flow this week with almost all major ones announcing their latest policy decisions and many boosted expectations for a rate hike in June. In other news, several countries released the preliminary data for first quarter economic growth. In the U.S., comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell were also in focus as his term ends this month.