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Housing officials at North Carolina State University in Raleigh closed a residence hall earlier this week when contractors discovered and disturbed asbestos inside the building.
According to an article in the college’s newspaper, The Technician, asbestos was discovered on the south side of Bragaw Residence Hall, prompting the hiring of a licensed abatement company to remove [...]
Asbestos has been found in a large portion of homes in Australia’s indigenous communities in the country’s remote Northern Territory.
According to an article in the Herald Sun, the first signs of asbestos troubles were discovered last August when tradespeople working on houses in one of the remote communities discovered the dangerous mineral. The tradesmen were [...]
The president of the Asbestos Disease Foundation of Australia (ADFA) says the national death toll from mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases continues to rise, and more and more do-it-yourself home renovators are now being counted among the deceased.
According to an article on News.com Australia, experts believe the death toll of 3,000 per year will double [...]
A New Jersey appellate court ruled that fifteen Spanish workers can sue an American company for asbestos-related diseases they say they developed due to work they performed on U.S. Navy ships in Spain.
According to an Associated Press article, the court ruled 3-0 in favor of the workers, reversing an earlier ruling made by a lower [...]
Asbestos safety risk expert, Jeffery C. Camplin, at the request of the Illinois Dunesland Preservation Society, has compiled a publication called “Asbestos Tips for Beach Visitors”, aimed at visitors to Chicago’s Oak Street Beach, where amphibole asbestos contamination has been an issue for the past several years.
According to a press release for the organization, for [...]
A study conducted by seven scientific and medical experts from around the world in regards to the cancer risks of asbestos was submitted to Canada’s Health Minister in March but has yet to be released to the general population, despite promises that the information would be made public within weeks of its receipt.
According to a [...]
A jury in Los Angeles awarded compensation in the amount of $9.7 million to a Georgia man who said he developed malignant mesothelioma decades after he was exposed to asbestos while serving as a Navy machinist’s mate aboard the USS Preble in Long Beach.
According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, Chief Y.R. [...]
Victims of asbestos exposure in the Australian state of Victoria will now be able to claim compensation for both asbestosis and, later, mesothelioma, thanks to a new law that is about to go into effect there.
According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, the new law – named after asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton, who [...]
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you need to contact an experienced New York City mesothelioma lawyer as soon as possible in order to see that your rights are protected. There is no reason to think your lifestyle might have played a part in getting this disease. Unlike lung cancer, [...]
A new study anchored by the University of Edinburgh has declared that long, thin carbon nanotubes might be as harmful as asbestos in the long run, especially if inhaled in sufficient quantities.
According to an Associated Press article, the study evaluated whether the carbon nanotubes can cause mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer for which the only known [...]