No response
On Thursday, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) despatched a letter to ACECO, asking if it adopted federal well being and security requirements to mitigate dangers of asbestos. “ACECO's work falls squarely inside a community of federal rules governing demolition, hazardous-material dealing with, and employee safety,” the senator wrote.
In a separate letter Thursday, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) sought “lawful transparency” on the demolition, together with the asbestos abatement plan.
In DC, asbestos abatement processes can solely be completed by a licensed contractor, who's required to inform the Division of Vitality and Setting 10 days prematurely of such work, then publish notices of asbestos abatement across the space of labor three days beforehand.
However reporting by the Publish discovered that ACECO shouldn't be licensed to abate asbestos in DC. “Our understanding is that as of August 18, 2022, Aceco LLC is not engaged in asbestos abatement providers,” a DC Division of Licensing and Shopper Safety spokesperson instructed The Publish. “The corporate's asbestos abatement license within the District of Columbia was voluntarily canceled by the proprietor on that date.”
ACECO has not responded to questions from media and, amid the White Home work, has taken down its web site for probably the most half, solely offering a web page that claims it's underneath development.
ADAO's Reinstein instructed the Publish that the White Home has not responded to the group's letter. “I realized 20 years in the past once I cofounded ADAO, no response is a response,” she instructed the Publish.
As Ars Technica has reported, Trump has a startlingly supportive stance on using asbestos. In his 1997 guide The Artwork of the Comeback, Trump wrote that asbestos is “100% protected, as soon as utilized.” He blamed the mob for its popularity as a carcinogen, writing: “I consider that the motion towards asbestos was led by the mob, as a result of it was usually mob-related firms that will do the asbestos elimination.”
