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Missouri Brick Factory Faces Asbestos Removal, Repurposing
In New Mexico, Missouri, a brick factory that operated continuously from 1908 through 2002 under the name A. P. Green Refactories is being given a new lease on life under the Mid America Brick and Structural Clay Products, LLC corporate umbrella thanks to remediation tax credits of up to $1,379,477 under the Brownfield Development Program. [...]
Asbestos Found at New Zealand Day Care Center Fire
A fire at a day care center in New Lynn, New Zealand, uncovered asbestos in ceiling tiles and roofing materials. Witnesses reported seeing flames climb nearly twenty feet into the night sky at the Planet Kids day care facility. Local residents also expressed worries about the asbestos-laced smoke from the fire that floated over the [...]
Denver Federal Center Gets Asbestos Remediation Preparatory to Solar Installation
At the Denver, Colorado, Federal Center, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is taking advantage of about $40 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act, or ARRA) funds to construct 35 acres of photovoltaic panels. Unfortunately, before the solar field construction can start, workmen have to remove several mounds of dirt contaminated with [...]
Asbestos Issues Plague Western Australia
A staffer at an Alcoa plant in Western Australia said that management at the factory should have recognized that valves at the facility were laced with asbestos but overlooked the problem. The factory is located in Pinjarra, about fifty miles south of Perth, the state capital. The worker, who wished to stay nameless, released an [...]
ASDTR Funding New Libby Study
In the small town of Libby, Montana, where former vermiculite mining at the W.R. Grace mine has led to a great many asbestos illnesses, including mesothelioma, a new study is aimed at determining the reason for the inexplicable rapidity and morbidity of these diseases by examining former Libby High School students. Libby and the W.R. [...]
Canadian Liberal Leader, Asbestos Industry Exchange Harsh Words
A proponent of the asbestos industry in Quebec has criticized Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff for not appearing at two towns that depend on the local asbestos mines to sustain their economy. Mr. Ignatieff has long been a critic of the industry and has decried the continued mining and used of asbestos as a health [...]
International Group Asks for Asbestos Ban – Could Reduce Mesothelioma Incidence
An international consortium of researchers, led by Joseph LaDou, M.D., is asking yet again that nations of the world, and most specifically Canada, ban the mining and manufacture of asbestos into products that, when sold, endanger the health of everyone who comes in contact with them. LaDou, a member of the Collegium Ramazzini, joined Fellows [...]
Scientists Find Cell Process That Causes Mesothelioma
Since the 1970s, scientists and researchers have endeavored to learn the process that causes exposure to asbestos to lead to mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer that strikes the soft band of tissue around the lungs. A recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences and authored by a research team from the University [...]
North Carolina Church Ceiling Could Contain Asbestos
Worshippers at the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Hickory, North Carolina, received a surprise during services last Sunday. The roof of the main auditorium collapsed, sending twelve parishioners to the hospital. Pieces of blue-green roof insulation fell to the floor during the debris, which sparked the fear that the material could contain asbestos. The church [...]
Quebec Approves Loan for Asbestos Mine
In spite of a global publicity drive against the move, provincial officials in Quebec seem ready to okay a multi-million-dollar loan guarantee that would reenergize the province’s asbestos mining industry. The loan package, totaled at over US$50 million, would finance a project to add more mining tunnels at the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec. The [...]
