Several government created entities are involved in the regulation of asbestos and protecting the public from and warning them about its dangers.   Exposure to asbestos, even a solitary incident, can lead to mesothelioma, asbestosis and other cancers.  Probably the most well-known federal regulatory agency is the Environmental Protection Agency, which is responsible for protecting human [...]

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 [...]

Frank Onoff was an asbestos removal supervisor with Paragon Environmental Construction in New York.  For more than a decade, he participated in a scam along with another company, Certified Environmental Systems, Inc.  This week Onoff pleaded guilty to committing mail fraud, violating the Toxic Substances Control and Clean Air Act, and defrauding the United States. 
Paragon [...]

Last fall, Federal Judge Carol Jackson ruled that the city of St. Louis and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport had violated the Clean Air Act by performing improper asbestos removal during demolition.  The city had been clearing homes which contained asbestos materials in order to construct a new runway.  To perform the demolition of about 250 [...]

Randall Cornford and his corporation, River Junction Mobile Home Services, LLC, were charged with violating several asbestos environmental regulations after burning a number of mobile homes on a rural property in Crawford County.  

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) filed a complaint after discovering asbestos in the burned remains.  Cornford is also charged with [...]