Asbestos

Flame Retardant Industry: Using Tobacco Industry Tactics to Promote the Asbestos of Our Time

Michael Green | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Environment, Big Tobacco, Asbestos, Tobacco, Fire Retardants, Health, Flame Retardant Chemicals, Chicago Tribune, Flame Retardants, Fire Retardant Chemicals, Green News

The Chicago Tribune found that the three leading makers of fire retardant chemicals have for decades used deception and phony "citizen's groups" to mislead the public, legislators and regulators about the efficacy and safety of their products.

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Capitol's Asbestos Saga Ends After 13 Years, $173 Million

| Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Capitol Office of Compliance, Architect of the Capitol Asbestos, Video, Capitol Hill, Capitol Asbestos, Capitol Campus, Asbestos, Architect of the Capitol, Cqrc, DC News

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff This week marks the official conclusion of the case of 10 Architect of the Capitol employees who were exposed to a...

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End the Delays Deadly to Workers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Chronic Beryllium Disease, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Usw, Beryllium, United Steelworkers, Asbestos, Osha, Silica, Emergency Temporary Standards, Materion Brush, Workers Memorial Day, Gao, Republic Special Metals, Government Accountability Office, Job Safety, Business News

Saturday is Workers' Memorial Day, a time devoted to commemorating those killed on the job. No one volunteers to sacrifice their life for corporate profit, yet every day in workplaces across this country, the lives of 12 workers are taken, not given.

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EPA allowed unsafe handling of asbestos, IG says

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 02.14.2012

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By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby, iWatch NewsThe Environmental Protection Agency has allowed the use of unapproved methods to demolish buildings conta...

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Makeover of New Orleans Naval Complex Slated for 2013

Susan Buchanan | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: U.S. Navy, UNITY of Greater New Orleans, Historic Tax Credits, Housing, Homelessness, Cruise Ships, Police, Military Bases, Katrina, Disasters, Supermarkets, Asbestos, Industrial Canal, U.S. Dept. Of Housing and Urban Development, New Orleans' Ninth Ward, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Green News

After a string of natural and man-made catastrophes, New Orleans has become a spot to share expertise on flooding, wind, spilled oil and any other grief that comes down the pike.

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Union Rats' New Focus: Asbestos

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Asbestos Nyc, Union Asbestos, Union Rats Asbestos, Asbestos, Scabbies, Union Rats, New York News

By adding the sign "Asbestos Kills" around Scabbies' necks, the Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborer's Union 78 of NYC, Long Island and New Jersey is able to bring support for the Scabbies to their cause: only union labor is safe for asbestos removal.

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America's Moms Are Watching U.S. Senate: Pass the Safe Chemicals Act!

Jessica Alba | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Mercury, Toxic Chemicals, Toxic Chemicals and Children, Lead, Asbestos, Safe Chemicals Act, Consumer Protection, Formaldehyde, Parents News

Every kid has the right to be safe in her home. Every mom has the right to know that the products she buys for her child are free of toxic chemicals. We have hope and faith in our political system to fix this problem, and we are counting on our U.S. Senators to get it done.

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Sarnia Mayor: Ottawa 'Shameful' On Asbestos File

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Canada Asbestos, Michaela Keyserlingk, Asbestos, Sarnia Mayor, Mayor Mike Bradley, Asbestos Widow, Home News

The Conservative Party of Canada offered an explanation Monday as to why it issued a threatening letter to the widow of an asbestos victim: it was sta...

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The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Clean Air Act (1990), Lead, Tsca, Nitrosating Compounds, Lead-Based Paint, Pcbs, Ozone-Depleting Substances, Dioxin, Asbestos, Chemicals, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Disease, Health, Fully Halogenated Chlorofluoralkanes, Erin Brockovich, Hazardous Waste, Hexavalent Chromium, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Cancer, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Chromium, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.

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AIG Sells Troublesome Insurance Risk Off To Buffett's Berkshire

Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Lloyd's of London, Berkshire Hathaway, National Indemnity, Insurance, Casualty Insurance, CNA Financial, Chartis Property, American International Group, Asbestos, S&P Insurance Index, Business News

NEW YORK - American International Group will transfer its troublesome asbestos risk to Berkshire Hathaway, relieving it of a book of business that...

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Asbestos Trade Thriving Despite Major Health Hazards

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Kevin Liptak | Posted 05.25.2011

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For many in the developed world, asbestos may seem like a thing of the past: A cancer-causing fiber banned in the European Union, and limited to a sma...

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Asbestos Dumped In A Field In Impoverished Black Township

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Pinski, Clean Air Act, Illinois, Asbestos, Poverty, Pembroke Township, Hopkins Park, Chicago News

An Illinois real estate developer has been accused of dumping toxic asbestos in a tiny, mostly-black town mired in poverty. Michael J. Pinski, a Kank...

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Researchers Seek Past Students From Toxic Mine Town

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asbestos in Libby Montana, Libby Montana, Montana, Toxic Chemicals, Toxic Waste, Asbestos, Green News

SPOKANE, Wash. — Researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to track the health of thousands of high school graduates over a half century i...

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ALEC: Ghostwriting the Law for Corporate America

Anthony Tarricone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asbestos, Aaj, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Association for Justice, Civil Justice, Alec, Politics News

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group most have never heard of, happens to be one of the most powerful state lobbies in the entire...

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Denver Water Workers Disclose 'Toxic Burial Ground' At Foothills Water Treatment Facility

KDVR | Heidi Hemmat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Pollution, 'Toxic Cemetery', Denver Water, Asbestos, Denver News

DENVER - Retired Denver Water workers are coming clean about hazardous waste they say they buried near dozens of homes and schools 20 years ago. "I...

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South Africa's Environment and Human Rights--the next revolution

Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: South Africa, Environmental Policy, Cancer Prevention, Cancer Research, Pesticides, Cancer Association of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Asbestos, Oncology, Healthy Living News

The Cancer Association of South Africa--the largest nongovernmental agency in the health sector--is setting its sights on a vitally important tactic--making prevention the cure for cancer.

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Memo to Capitol Hill: Want to Save the Country $5 Billion? Thought So.

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Lead, Congress, Apple Computers, Children, Christopher Gavigan, Cfcs, Ewg, Asbestos, Cancer, Healthy Child Healthy World, Impact News

Over 30 years ago Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act to protect health and the environment. It was a regulatory system written based on our scientific knowledge then. But we know much more now.

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Estes Park Officials Use Fire to Exploit Political Drama

Jessica Peck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: EPURA, Colorado Resorts, Estes Park, Asbestos, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver News

When most people think political bullying, the scenic resort town of Estes Park, Colorado, isn't the first place that comes to mind. But to a growing number of residents, it has become a reality.

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Asbestos In Libby Montana: Emergency Declared By EPA

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The declaration is the first issued by the agency, which has grappled with the "toxic legacy" of a mine outside Libby, Montana, since 1999, Administra...

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Libby, Montana: EPA Declares Health Emergency Due To Asbestos

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Montana, Lisa Jackson, Asbestos, Libby, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Wednesday it will pump more than $130 million into a Montana town where asbestos contamination has be...

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