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A hot-button asbestos case in Chattanooga, Tennessee has just wrapped up with guilty verdicts for all parties involved.  An eleven-count indictment handed down against James Mathis and two of his partners, Donald Filler and David Wood, stems from multiple violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA).  The men, along with two separate corporations associated with [...]

Libby, Montana is a small town nestled the Northern Rockies along the beautiful Kootenai River.  Although Libby is a recreational, hunting and fishing paradise, the town is now most famous for being the former home of an asbestos mine, owned and operated by WR Grace.  Vermiculite asbestos, also known under the brand name, Zonolite, has [...]

Hard to believe that after all we know about the dangers of asbestos, exposure to this toxic mineral still occurs and thousands this year in the United States alone, some of whom will be brake and clutch repair mechanics, will be diagnosed with mesothelioma, a fatal cancer caused by asbestos.  Last, year, Washington took action [...]

When you think of asbestos crimes cashmere socks and the Royal Family are not generally what come to mind.  However a well-known company that manufactures the socks and other high-end knitwear in Great Britain – with a special Royal Warrant to produce socks for Prince Charles himself- was found guilty of putting its workers at [...]

Scandal hit Albany New York last month as a respected pastor and school principle was fingered in an asbestos scare that affected an entire neighborhood.  Timothy Fowler of the More Abundant Living Ministries is also the principal of Thomas O’Brien Academy of Science and Technology in Albany, New York.  Unfortunately, this well-respected man of the [...]

Inspector General Arthur Elkins of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an “Early Warning Report” that essentially puts an end to an experimental method of removing asbestos that is proven to be unsafe.  Unfortunately, the ban comes after seven years of the EPA demolishing buildings that contained asbestos materials using this alternative “wet [...]

Twenty years ago, many people had not heard the word asbestos or mesothelioma.  Now, pretty much everyone has seen at least one commercial or advertisement that warns that exposure to asbestos causes a type of terminal cancer called mesothelioma. Here are the basic facts about asbestos that everyone should know to avoid any unwanted and [...]

A breaking story in New South Wales just gets more and more bizarre by the day.  Earlier last month officials announced that they had unearthed what appeared to be a paper trail indicating that police officers and their families had been knowingly exposed to asbestos — yet nothing was done about it.
Not only were the [...]

Frederick County officials are weighing the financial cost for demolition of the old Gainesboro Elementary School, a building full of asbestos containing materials and other hazardous wastes, while hoping a buyer will step in to take the burden off their hands.
The school, like thousands before it, was constructed during a time when construction with asbestos [...]

Simon Lowes, a 42-year old father from Western Australia, has just been awarded a $2 million dollar sum in a vicious mesothelioma lawsuit against James Hardie Industries – an industrial materials manufacturer based in Ireland.  Lowes claimed that the mesothelioma from which he now suffers was caused by asbestos carelessly dumped near the miniature railway [...]