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For more than a century, thousands of products were made with asbestos.  In 1977, over 4.8 million tons of asbestos was mined worldwide.   Products containing asbestos were then installed in homes, buildings, ships and cars all over the world.
Asbestos, once hailed as a “miracle” material because of its fire and heat resistant properties, is now [...]

Asbestos, a naturally occurring, inexpensive and readily available mineral that was known for its fire resistant and insulating properties, was widely used in the construction of homes and buildings from the early 1900’s until the early 1980’s.
Anyone who is buying, demolishing, restoring, renovating, or repairing a building constructed before the 1980’s will need to be [...]

The Savoy Hotel, a London landmark, closed in 2007, recently reopened in the first weekend of October following a $350 million refurbishment, part of which included the removal of dangerous asbestos. The remodeling took more than three years, much of which included removing asbestos, a substance known to be toxic and cause serious illnesses such [...]

Any school built before 1980 was very likely constructed with asbestos containing materials.  Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was used in thousands of construction products because of it was fire-proof, heat and erosion resistant, very durable, affordable and available.  Asbestos, now known to cause serious illness, such as mesothelioma and lung cancer, was [...]

Many products used in construction, renovations, or remodeling, including joint compound, fireproofing, fire-rated drywall, and acoustical ceiling texture, contained asbestos through approximately the late 1970s.  Some of our clients were exposed to asbestos in these products when they poured, mixed, applied, sanded, cut, drilled through, or disturbed these products.
Once the products are in place, however, [...]

Due to the outcry of parents, another school, Leonia in Northern New Jersey, has decided to postpone any construction that would involve the removal of asbestos until school is dismissed for the summer.  Parents expressed concern over the health of their children, not wanting them to be at any risk of later developing mesothelioma or [...]

Asbestos abatement work scheduled to begin this week at Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin has been postponed until students are released on summer recess.  Parents were expressing concern that construction involving the removal of asbestos could cause a potential threat of exposure which could later lead to students developing mesothelioma and other asbestos related [...]

All states are regulated by NESHAP, National Emission Standard for Asbestos as part of the Clean Air Act, which is a federal law requiring adherence to certain practices when it comes to renovation and demolition activities where asbestos is present.  Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is proposing revisions to their regulations when it comes [...]

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was commonly used in many building materials, including floor tiles and mastic, which is the adhesive used to apply the floor tiles.  Use of asbestos started to become regulated in 1972 after it was clearly established and widely acknowledged that exposure to asbestos causes serious illnesses, such as [...]

James Robert Soyars, Jr. was indicted last week for violations of the Clean Air Act, specifically on nine counts that included failure to put warning labels and dispose of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) properly.  Soyars’s company, Talon Environmental, supposedly removed the asbestos after being hired to perform asbestos abatement at three different local businesses that [...]