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Company fined for violating Oregon’s asbestos removal rules
The state of Oregon recently fined a Florida company more than $74,000 for failing to follow state guidelines pertaining to asbestos removal during the clean-up of a mobile home park near Medford ravaged by last fall’s wildfires. According to Oregon’s Department of...
Asbestos in the Home
When most people think of asbestos, they may think of the boiler rooms of World War II vessels or factories. What not everyone knows is that it’s possible to find asbestos in people’s homes as well. It’s good to know where asbestos can sometimes be found in order to...
Is there a gender-based disparity in mesothelioma survivability?
Many presume that a typical mesothelioma patient is a man who worked in a blue-collar industry that left him exposed to asbestos. In reality, for every four mesothelioma diagnoses involving males, one woman is diagnosed. While the disproportional number is not...
Asbestos imports in the United States double from the previous year
The link between asbestos exposure and mesothelioma diagnoses is irrefutable. In response to serious illnesses without a definitive cure combined with lives lost, countries around the world have implemented outright bans on importing and manufacturing the deadly...
U.S. asbestos imports jump in 2020
Asbestos imports to the U.S. nearly doubled last year to 300 tons compared with the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of Interior. The number represents a significant increase from the 172 tons of asbestos the country imported In 2019. The statistics...
The dangers of homes built with asbestos
Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that swept the nation from the 1920s to the 1980s as the primary resource of fire retardant coatings, insulation, and countless other products. While industry and government knew it was hazardous from the start, it wasn't until the 1980s...
Four jobs at risk of asbestos exposure
Asbestos is a toxic material that manufacturers commonly used up until the 1980s, and is still used in some products even today. While most people believe that the United States banned the substance after learning about its risks, they actually did not. Between...
5 Common Products You Might be Shocked to Learn Contain Asbestos
Sixty-seven countries around the world have banned the use of asbestos. The U.S. is not among them -- at least, not anymore. In 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency banned asbestos in American products, but after the industry sued, a federal appeals court...
You never know where you will find asbestos on your property
Most homeowners or renters do not wake up to the alarming situation that confronted a New York resident last year. Sometime after his family moved into a Long Island rental home last May, Andrew Sirico -- the father of three children -- found something quite...
Who is Most at Risk of Mesothelioma?
Most people have heard of the toxic substance known as asbestos – and mesothelioma, the deadly form of cancer that it causes. A common misconception, however, is that the only people in danger of contracting this disease are those who come into direct and regular...
