Three years after a developer withdrew plans to build a controversial high-rise on an asbestos waste pile in tiny Ambler Borough, the dump is again the focus of a public dust-up. Workers with earth-moving equipment appeared last month at the 38-acre BoRit site on Maple Street near Butler Pike, where...
PARIS AFP — Scientists delivered a warning Tuesday about nanotechnology after tests on lab rodents found that microscopic, needle-like fibres that are already in commercial use led to lesions similar to those caused by asbestos. In experiments, researchers led by Ken Donaldson of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, exposed...
U.S. Senate Urges Surgeon General to Warn and Educate About the Dangers of Asbestos Exposure REDONDO BEACH, Calif. -- The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization, the Voice of the Victims, today announced the beginning of Asbestos Awareness Week. April 1, 2008 was designated as the beginning of National Asbestos Awareness...
HELENA, Mont. -- W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to reimburse the federal government $250 million for the investigation and cleanup of asbestos contamination blamed for sickening hundreds of people, some fatally, in the northwestern Montana town of Libby. Approval of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge is necessary...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- W.R. Grace, a global supplier of specialty chemicals, has agreed to pay $250 million, the highest sum in the history of the Superfund program, to reimburse the federal government for...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cleve Allen George, the owner of the Virgin Islands Asbestos Removal, Co., was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for multiple violations of the Clean Air Act and false...
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WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass. -- American Biltrite Inc. (AMEX:ABL) today reported that an amended reorganization plan has been filed by the future claimants' representative in the Chapter 11 proceedings of its 55% owned subsidiary Congoleum Corporation (AMEX - CGM). American Biltrite believes that the amended plan will receive the support of...
NEW YORK -- After a long battle, the "Ban Asbestos in America Act" was finally passed in the Senate in October, much to the relief of advocates for asbestos victims and many others fighting to cease use of the known carcinogen. Celebrations for the ban will have to wait, however,...
SYDNEY AFP — Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday hailed as a hero a man who won billions of dollars in compensation for workers from a multinational company. He was speaking at a state funeral for Bernie Banton, 61, who died from an asbestos-related disease he contracted while...
SEOUL AFP — A South Korean court Tuesday ordered an asbestos manufacturer to pay 141,000 dollars in damages to a victim's relatives, in the country's first legal ruling on the cancer-causing material. The court in the southern city of Daegu ruled in favour of the family of a worker...
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: Anne Rowan of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, +1- 312-353-9391, rowan.anne@epa.gov CHICAGO, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5's request, a special team from EPA's Environmental Response Center will soon begin air sampling at Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, Ill., to better determine...
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Chris Hahn, Executive Director of Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, +1-805-563-8400, chahn@curemeso.org WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation today commended Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, under the direction of Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), for approving the Ban Asbestos in America...
A Menomonee Falls demolition company was fined about $59,000 Monday by the Milwaukee County Circuit Court for asbestos violations. SCS Wisconsin Inc. challenged the Wisconsin Department of Justice on a series of asbestos violation charges it allegedly committed in 2004 while demolishing buildings at the Patrick Cudahy Inc....
TOKYO AFP — New York's steam pipe explosion has shocked Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui, who lives nearby and has been urged to evacuate, reports said Friday. The Japanese star's apartment is just 700 metres yards from the accident site in midtown Manhattan and authorities have issued a voluntary evacuation...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA has released a draft report that evaluates an alternative demolition process for buildings containing asbestos. Scientists and engineers from EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory and the Dallas regional office compared the current process of demolishing an asbestos-containing structure with a new method...
PROVO -- Asbestos is the final obstacle to demolition of Provo's historic Catholic church, and the difficulty of removing the hazardous substance might provide preservationists with another chance to save the building. Provo has issued a demolition permit to the Catholic Church, the Deseret Morning News has learned....
To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1-202- 514-1888 WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Branko Lazic, owner of Bilaz, Inc. pleaded guilty today to one count of criminally violating the Clean Air Act in relation to the removal of asbestos from the Mattison Elementary School in Ambler,...
GENEVA AFP — The International Labour Organisation's monolothic headquarters, which houses some 2,000 staff, needs to be cleared of potentially lethal asbestos used when it was built in the 1970s, a leading union official said Friday. The Geneva-based agency, which groups employers, trade unions and governments from 180 countries...
On its face, the asbestos case seems a quintessential example of the obstacles to enacting major tort reform in the United States, even when judges repeatedly ask for legislative relief and tort law is demonstrably costly and inconsistent. However, a closer look reveak that, since the early 1980s, judges and...
