World Trade Center Asbestos

World Trade Center Asbestos Issues Not Just About 9-11 While it’s true that scores of individuals were likely exposed to hazardous asbestos when the World Trade Center (WTC) towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, releasing tons of asbestos insulation into the air, there’s currently a battle brewing between an insurance company, the owner of the … Read more

Asbestos a Problem in Classic Cars

Asbestos a Problem in Classic Cars

The Australian Border Force (ABF) – the agency responsible for offshore and onshore border control enforcement, investigations, compliance and detention operations in that country – has a problem.

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Employee Asbestos Exposure

City Officials Knowingly Allowed Employee Asbestos Exposure

Two city officials from Marion, South Carolina have been indicted for allowing their employees to work inside buildings filled with toxic asbestos and also for allowing the release of asbestos-containing fibers from hazardous waste into the atmosphere. The men face both fines and jail time if convicted.

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Secondhand Asbestos Exposure

One-Fourth of Peritoneal Mesothlioma Cases Happen via Secondhand Asbestos Exposure

When one reads about an individual who is suffering from mesothelioma, most often it is the pleural form of the disease that afflicts that particular person.

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EPA Says No Asbestos Left Behind After Fire

EPA Says No Asbestos Left Behind After Massive Warehouse Fire

A warehouse fire in a crowded area of St. Louis has put residents on edge, concerned about what’s left behind in the debris. However, the EPA tells them that there’s nothing to worry about after tests of debris in neighborhoods around the site turned up clean.

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Insurance Providers Cancelling Policies Due to Asbestos

Some Insurance Providers Cancelling Policies Due to Asbestos

In certain parts of the country, major insurance providers are refusing to insure homes where asbestos is present, not wishing to assume the risk associated with the mineral, which can cause cancer when its fibers are inhaled.

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Asbestos Remains at Pillsbury Site

Despite Clean-up, Asbestos Remains at Pillsbury Site

The feds spent a whopping $1.8 million to clean up asbestos at the old Pillsbury site in Springfield, Illinois, but there’s still plenty of the toxic asbestos material lurking about in hard to clean places, officials say.

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Killed by Asbestos

Famous Professor Killed by Asbestos

A retired Oxford University (England) professor who was well known in his field has died at age 93 of mesothelioma, a disease that an inquest panel believes he may have developed when he served as “Keeper of the Books” at the university’s expansive library.

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Ingesting Asbestos

Mesothelioma from Ingesting Asbestos

In an unusual case of asbestos-caused cancer, it has been reported that a 23-year-old woman in the United Kingdom has likely developed mesothelioma due to her ingesting asbestos when she was a very small child.

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Secondary Exposure

Women Vulnerable to Mesothelioma Due To Secondary Exposure

For decades, asbestos-caused cancer was considered a man’s disease. Indeed, the average mesothelioma sufferer was – and still is – male, usually with a median age of around 65. That’s because most of those affected by the disease had labored in jobs that were typically for men, including at steel mills, refineries, power plants, and other places where tasks demanded lots of strength and tenacity.

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