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A Most Reckless Proposal — A Plan to Continue Asbestos Use in the United States

August 6, 2019 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

Each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die often painful, protracted deaths from diseases caused by asbestos. These deaths occur in firefighters, police officers, construction workers, miners, military veterans, shipyard workers, and maintenance workers whose exposures to asbestos are primarily occupational. Death also occurs in partners and children … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos diseases, asbestos exposure, asbestos products, asbestos-related disease, asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma

Jury clears J&J of liability in California talc cancer case

November 20, 2018 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

A California jury on [November 14, 2018] cleared Johnson & Johnson of liability in a case involving a woman who alleged that the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused her cancer, the company said. The jury in Humboldt County Superior Court in Eureka, California rejected claims by Carla Allen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lawsuits Tagged With: asbestos lawsuits, asbestos products, asbestos-contaminated talc, asbestos-infused talc, lawsuit, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma lawsuit

Home-Grown Asbestos

October 25, 2018 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), there are 142 former asbestos mines in the continental United States. Of these, only a handful of mines in a few states (California, Vermont, Arizona, and North Carolina) have produced large, commercial quantities of asbestos. Starting in the early 1960s, multiple large, open-pit mines in California … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos fibers, asbestos mine, asbestos products, chrysotile asbestos

It’s time for the EPA to ban asbestos once and for all

August 16, 2018 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

Nearly 40,000 Americans die from preventable asbestos-caused diseases every year, yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still hasn't banned this toxic substance. Asbestos was once marketed as a "miracle mineral" for its flame-resistance, strength and flexibility to use in construction, but has since been revealed for what it truly is: a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos diseases, asbestos exposure, asbestos fibers, asbestos products, asbestos-related disease

‘This house killed me’: DIY home renovators the third wave of asbestos victims

June 13, 2017 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

It was a winter's day when Herman Maifoffer walked out of his home for what he knew would be the last time. He had helped build the small three-bedroom house in Cabramatta where his three children had grown up and where he had lived for 40 years.  As he was wheeled into an ambulance, his wife Rosemary asked if he wanted one last look around. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos exposure, asbestos fibers, asbestos products, asbestos-cancer, asbestos-related disease, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma, secondhand asbestos exposure

Asbestos, spying and the Canadian connection

May 10, 2017 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

This week in Geneva, delegates to a conference of the parties to the Rotterdam Convention are again discussing whether chrysotile asbestos should be put on the list of hazardous substances. One hot topic is sure to be Canada, which until 2012 was a major exporter of chrysotile — the most common form of asbestos — and opposed its inclusion on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos fibers, asbestos mine, asbestos products, chrysotile asbestos

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