• The United States Environmental Protection Agency has qualified second-hand smoke as a Group A carcinogen, a category which also includes hazardous substances such as asbestos and arsenic.

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• While the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was busy testing for and removing asbestos from the soon-to-be-demolished building, the Perry History Club was interested in extracting something else from it, something they weren't sure was fact or fiction.
• The Ohio EPA has conducted tests for asbestos and is currently removing the harmful substance from "hot spots" in the two-story building.

• The felony charges accuse Desler of causing asbestos to be released into the air by authorizing demolition of several buildings on a former Willamette Industries mill site at 24th and Tamarack streets in Sweet Home.

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• I'm talking about the poisoning of hundreds of working-class people in Libby, Montana, by asbestos fibers.

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• Tue, May 12 2009 Attorneys for Fields and former Labor Department asbestos official Laurie Allen say the settlement included a confidentiality agreement.

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• Published Date: 12 May 2009 VICTIMS of an asbestos-related condition have won the right to be represented in the legal battle over the right to compensation, it was announced today..
• Some of the UK's biggest names in insurance are fighting a new law in Scotland which gives victims of pleural plaques – a symptomless thickening of lung membranes – the right to seek damages.
• "We successfully argued on behalf of around a dozen of our pleural plaques clients that they have a right to be party to this very unusual action," he said.
• "I found it quite strange that the insurance companies who are raising the action – because they say it will cost them a lot of money if they have to pay out on pleural plaques claims – objected to the victims being involved despite the fact that our clients will be the very ones who will end up having no rights if they succeed."The legal challenge to the new law was raised by Axa, Norwich Union, Royal & Sun Alliance, and Zurich Insurance after legislation was passed by MSPs in March.
• The law overturned in Scotland a landmark House of Lords ruling that people with pleural plaques could not seek compensation.
• Pleural plaques indicate past exposure to asbestos but does not in itself cause or develop into a more serious condition.

Source From : Scottish asbestos victims win legal battle

• The allegations stem from asbestos found in the demolition of buildings at a former lumber mill site in Sweet Home.
• Desler, in a recent interview with The Register-Guard, said Willamette Industries provided a report saying the mill site was asbestos-free.
• The city of Sweet Home issued Desler a demolition permit for the site, but it was revoked after the city was notified by the DEQ of asbestos on-site, according to Carol Lewis, the city's community development director.
• But Corp, who testified before the grand jury, did not know the site contained asbestos, said deputy district attorney Heidi Sternhagen of Linn County.
• "There wasn't supposed to be any asbestos in there,'' Dwyer said.

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• "The high school is nearly 40 years old and requires significant updating to meet the educational needs of the 21st century."The project is estimated to be completed by 2011 and will include asbestos abatement, the replacement of the building's roof and windows, upgrades to the heating and air conditioning and fire alarm systems, science lab renovations and the replacement of the gym floor.

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• The uninsured first discovered the value of cheap but good surgery at the Hilton-like new hospitals and dental clinics that have come up in India.
• And now even the insured from the big cities of USA go to India and get major surgery and a 4 week vacation for themselves and a family member to boot.
• Plastic surgery and obesity surgery too in Spain.
• Mom had surgery so I spent a many days at the hospital.
• Some follow- lead, mercury, asbestos, transfats and the many carcinogens in our food and air.
• It took many decades to prove asbestos causes cancer and that was before the corporate/scientific chemical industry was in such full bloom.

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• Jim Byrne, an environmental scientist with the EPA, said sampling the ground for oil or hazardous chemicals or testing building materials for asbestos, lead and other pollutants is often the first step toward a cleanup.

Source From : EPA gives boost to land in limbo

• "There are floor tiles in there with asbestos and the paint is falling off the walls," Bateman said.

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• May 13, 2009 12:26am AEST The Australian Hellicar has been busy pruning her workload after a Supreme Court judge found that she, together with nine other former directors of James Hardie, broke the law when they misled the public regarding the company's ability to compensate people with asbestos-related illnesses.

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• "For every teacher who's exposed, how many children are there?"Rowen said: "I was responsible for building in my secondary school and I know first-hand that management of asbestos is not up to scratch.
• "There's a long latency period and children are more vulnerable if they are exposed early in their lives when their lungs are still developing.
• Bousted said: "Our asbestos register has over 500 members who know they have been exposed to asbestos but we believe that's a drop in the ocean and there will be many, many more teachers exposed who just don't know it."The campaigners want the government to carry out immediate air sampling of 100 schools in England and Wales, built at different times, to see whether asbestos is present.
• Building Schools for the Future doesn't automatically remove asbestos and local authorities aren't treating it seriously.
• They will also argue for an independent public body to be set up to look into and advise on asbestos in schools.
• According to Cancer Research UK, just over 2,100 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma, which is virtually untreatable, in the UK each year.
• Three-quarters of schools in England and Wales contain asbestos, and nearly 300 teachers and lecturers have died of mesothelioma – a cancer related to asbestos exposure – since 1980.
• Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, who is leading a joint campaign of all the teaching unions, said: "We've known about this issue for a while and have been campaigning for the last two years but it's really coming together now."She will join Paul Rowen, Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale, a former deputy headteacher who has raised the issue in parliament, and asbestos expert and campaigner Michael Lees, whose wife died of mesothelioma in 2000, to urge Brown to carry out a national audit of asbestos in schools.

Source From : Call to tackle asbestos in schools

• The report also includes industry definition, 5-year historical trends on industry sales, establishments and employment, a breakdown of establishments, sales and employment by employee size of establishment (9 categories), and estimates on up to 10 sub-industries, including toxic and hazardous waste cleanup and oil spill cleanup, environmental cleanup, decontamination services, and asbestos remediation and encapsulation.
• This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) remediation and clean-up of contaminated buildings, mine sites, soil, or ground water; (2) integrated mine reclamation activities, including demolition, soil remediation, waste water treatment, hazardous material removal, contouring land, and revegetation; and (3) asbestos, lead paint, and other toxic material abatement.

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• Prompted by the fatal Deutsche Bank building fire, the City Council passed a dozen bills Monday increasing oversight at demolition and asbestos abatement sites.
• The bills also require special permits for high-risk asbestos abatement and prohibit simultaneous asbestos removal and demolition at most sites.

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