This is a bit misleading. We still have lead water pipes but the start of getting rid of lead from paint and gasoline in the 70’s and its crazy we still have not gotten rid of it in pipes with just recently during our more sane times of the last few decades some more regulation (if it stands in the next four years.) Asbestos is a bit of a special case as it did prevent fire deaths significantly and there was issues with replacing it with something as effective and issues with disturbing it possibly being more dangerous by requiring it to be replaced. but regulation again did start in the seventies with exposure to workers in manufacturer. Still much like lead pipes it is only in the past year during our brief blip of enlightened times that its been banned mostly. Again if it stays in place.
Yeah but your talking niche cases so I figured you were looking at it more broadly. The epa phasedown started in the early 70’s and the requirement of catalytic converters combined with leaded gasoline not being allowed in vehicles with catalytic converters essentially got rid of it despite it being able to be used in aviation and race cars and such along with legacy cars if you could find it.
Lead and asbestos weren’t banned until long after the 70s. Asbestos was (sort of) banned in 1989, and leaded gasoline wasn’t banned until 1996.
This is a bit misleading. We still have lead water pipes but the start of getting rid of lead from paint and gasoline in the 70’s and its crazy we still have not gotten rid of it in pipes with just recently during our more sane times of the last few decades some more regulation (if it stands in the next four years.) Asbestos is a bit of a special case as it did prevent fire deaths significantly and there was issues with replacing it with something as effective and issues with disturbing it possibly being more dangerous by requiring it to be replaced. but regulation again did start in the seventies with exposure to workers in manufacturer. Still much like lead pipes it is only in the past year during our brief blip of enlightened times that its been banned mostly. Again if it stays in place.
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Yeah but your talking niche cases so I figured you were looking at it more broadly. The epa phasedown started in the early 70’s and the requirement of catalytic converters combined with leaded gasoline not being allowed in vehicles with catalytic converters essentially got rid of it despite it being able to be used in aviation and race cars and such along with legacy cars if you could find it.