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“No. Every material we use is considered safe and green. Western Electric strives to meet all OSHA and EPA standards and does not use any banned substances. We sell and ship vacuum tubes every day. We hope this is enough to demystify any old wives’ tales about tube manufacturing hazards.”
Sorta destroys the you can't do this because of the EPA argument. Which Aspen did years ago by saying the EPA was easy to get around, the bottom line was could he turn a profit after start up and labor.
This is great news really, and W.E. based on this articles seems like they are moving forward.