Blog Posts in January, 2011
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Exposure to aerosolized asbestos causes lethal, incurable diseases, such as mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis. With this in mind, you might think that Georgetown University would have responded ...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2011 By Bryan Fears
If your home was built prior to 1977 you should take caution before beginning your remodeling project for 2011. Until 1977, asbestos was a standard industry material in home construction. In older ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The State of Tennessee recently ordered the City of Clarksville to pay $77,000 for its improper demolition of a local apartment complex. The City of Clarksville allegedly violated state water disposal ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Recology Hay Road landfill in Vacaville, California, is home to thousands of tons of disposed asbestos. The dumping ground for used, decaying asbestos-laden products, Hay Road is allegedly within ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The latest finding of the scientific journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), concluded recently that mesothelioma is significantly underreported. Of the 56 countries reviewed in the study, ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Incredibly, neither Congress nor the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prohibited the use of asbestos, despite the fact that asbestos has reached epidemic proportions. Currently, ...
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Posted on Jan 20, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Mesothelioma, a lethal cancer caused by asbestos exposure, has an exceptionally long latency period, often between 20 and 50 years. However, once the symptoms of mesothelioma emerge – breathing ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By Bryan Fears
In late 2010, a Florida judge, Cheryl Alemán, passed away from an aggressive form of lung cancer. Ms. Alemán, a state appellate judge, passed away just weeks after her diagnosis. In response to her ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2011 By Bryan Fears
According to a study conducted for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , U.S. mechanics face a significantly higher likelihood of asbestos exposure and the lethal diseases – asbestosis, mesothelioma, and ...
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Posted on Jan 14, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The President recently signed into law H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act that provides medical care and compensation to rescue workers and others harmed by the ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Incredibly, of the thousands of people who die annually from mesothelioma, an estimated thirty percent were exposed during their service with the United States military. It isn’t right or fair, but ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Last week the Colorado Attorney General announced that Michael Merit, a 46-year-old man who falsely claimed to be an asbestos inspector, had been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2011 By Bryan Fears
According to the latest estimate of the anticipated incidence of asbestos-related disease published in Environmental Health Perspectives , in the coming decades the number of asbestos cases will ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Bryan Fears
California’s Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco ruled recently that in situations in which an individual was exposed to asbestos during his tenure with several different employers, his last employer ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that an individual in Toledo, Ohio, abandoned sixty bags of asbestos across several vacant homes in an Ohio working class neighborhood. The ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Medical researchers in Italy have identified a protein enzyme that enables the growth of mesothelioma, a malignant cancer caused by asbestos exposure. As described in the medical journal, Lung Cancer ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Because of his illegal asbestos dumping, a man in Utica, New York, not only owes the federal government $18,000 in clean up costs, but is also currently serving a more than six year prison sentence. ...
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