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Navy Veterans Heavily Exposed to Asbestos on Ships, but Bail Out Bill Undermines Right to Fair Compensation (7/25/06)
Proposed Asbestos Bailout Bill is taking away Veterans' rights. Don't be misled, this Asbestos Bailout Bill is bad for veterans. Thousands of veterans across this country do not support this bill. In fact, there is evidence of a fraudulent letter-writing campaign on behalf of veterans going on in favor of this bill. More...
Dirty Little Secret - Asbestos Laces Many Residential Soils (7/10/06)
It was the mid-1980s, and Terry Trent and his wife, Carol Adams, had broken ground for their dream home. Atop a hill east of Sacramento, Calif., the remote, 10-acre site in the Sierra foothills offered plenty of privacy. As the couple eventually learned, it offered plenty of something else as well: a nasty type of asbestos known as tremolite. Respiratory exposure to this mineral has been linked with mesothelioma, a lung cancer that quickly turns fatal. More...
Families of Workers Blame Deaths On Plant's Use of Asbestos (11/4/02)
When his best friend, Ron Cogley, died on New Year's Day 1997, Billy Fugate knew his time was short.
The fishing buddies worked in the same asbestos dust on the same job during the same years at Foseco, an industrial plant south of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. More...
Asbestos Has Had Serious, Not-So-Serious Uses Over Time (11/4/02)
In the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz," Cleveland native Margaret Hamilton, who portrayed Miss Gulch and her evil alter-ego the Wicked Witch of the West, wielded a burning broom made of asbestos. Although the witch later melted, her broom didn't. More...
The Victims Of A Stealthy Killer (11/3/02)
The first generation of asbestos victims in northeast Ohio was shipbuilders, pipefitters and construction workers. Its latest generation comes from all walks of life. More...
Asbestos Diseases Wait To Attack (11/3/02)
In 1983, as a teenage dad, Tony Coleman worked six dusty days a week as a mechanic in South Euclid. More...
German Utility RWE Announces Asbestos Death Toll (8/06/01)
Germany's second biggest utility, RWE, said on Thursday that 85 of its workers had died from asbestos-related diseases since the 1980s. More...
Asbestos A Natural Danger in Northern California (7/26/01)
As they turn over the soil to build million-dollar homes above San Francisco and in the Sierra Nevada foothills, developers are finding a problemnaturally occurring asbestos. More...