AGs Urge Walmart to Better Protect Workers, Criticize EPA on Asbestos Finding

Attorneys general in a dozen states have called on Walmart to provide better protective measures for its workers during the coronavirus pandemic. On the same day this week, many of those same AGs also criticized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its recent finding that certain uses of asbestos present no unreasonable risk to human health. “The EPA’s most recent findings are based on incomplete information, and I am urging the agency to conduct a thorough evaluation of the dangers posed by exposure to asbestos,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said in a news...