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Navy Veterans at Highest Risk of Asbestos Exposure
Of all the branches of the military, Navy servicemen run the highest risk of disease due to asbestos exposure. It was common practice to use products containing asbestos on ships of all kinds built before 1980. Even after this, servicemen who performed repairs or renovations on ships or [...]

A tornado swept through Surry, Virginia on April 16 and caused a widespread power outage when a local nuclear power plant, owned and operated by Dominion Virginia Power (DOM), temporarily went offline.  While the threat of contamination was never realized (the plant immediately switched to a generator to avoid any possibility of danger) the outage [...]

Lone Star Industries, defendant in the multi-million dollar mesothelioma lawsuit, wasn’t happy with the $12.5 million dollars a jury awarded the plaintiff, Charles Cundiff, in California Superior Court earlier this month. Cundiff was awarded the massive sum because he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2008.
His lawyers successfully argued the disease was due to exposure [...]

Derelict barges and other watercraft have been an eyesore along the shores of the Petaluma River in California for decades but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is just now stepping in to clean some of the mess up for fear of waterway contamination.  The old hulks may still contain oil, diesel, and other hazardous fluids [...]

The former Roach School in Decatur, Illinois is nearing the final stages of the asbestos abatement project that was necessary before the remainder of the building can be demolished.  Representatives from the City of Decatur have said that the building will be flattened before the end of this summer.
While that may be good news for [...]

The Daily Show clip that mocks Canada’s continued support of the mining, use and distribution overseas of chrysotile asbestos is both hilarious and heartbreaking!
Despite hundreds of thousands dying from horrible asbestos related cancers, such as mesothelioma and asbestosis, Canada is reopening chyrsotile mines, hanging on to keeping a town called Asbestos versus renaming, and sending [...]

Amid concerns of possible asbestos exposure, employees at Bonner County Courthouse are concerned for their current and future health.  However, officials with various agencies have told them repeatedly there’s nothing to be worried about even though the vermiculite insulation in the building likely contains unsafe amounts of asbestos—a powerful carcinogen that can cause invariably lethal [...]

Testing conducted on April 22 revealed unsafe levels of asbestos at the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The Benjamin Franklin Elementary School had been using the church building since 2003.
The discovery prompted swift action by school officials and students were moved to a new building just two blocks away.  Officials say that the students [...]

Parents responded with vocal protests when the school board at a Carmi, Illinois high school announced plans to begin an asbestos removal project while school was still in session.  While a third party contractor who is licensed in asbestos abatement practices has been hired, many parents wondered why the school board couldn’t wait to initiate [...]

The City of Augusta, Maine will likely have to foot the bill for a $100 thousand asbestos abatement and demolition project this year without hopes of retrieving any of that money from the building’s previous owners.  The property, which sits at 6 Morton Place, has been abandoned for years and has become a frequent hangout [...]