Tag: mesothelioma

EPA Accuses Florida City, Contractor of Violating Asbestos Regulations

05/10/2010 Florida (Mesothelioma News) – Residents of Marco Island in southwest Florida are demanding answers after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency advised the city that it had violated six asbestos-related regulations while rebuilding a local roadway in 2006-potentially jeopardizing the health of residents and workers. Asbestos-long linked to deadly medical conditions including lung cancer and […]

Long Island School Evacuated After Asbestos Discovery

04/27/2010 (Mesothelioma News) -The sudden discovery of asbestos at a suburban New York high school forced an evacuation of students on March 25-and an early start to spring break. It was also an unsettling reminder that asbestos-a material linked to diseases including lung cancer and mesothelioma, an almost always fatal cancer of the protective lining […]

Asbestos Levels in California Town Don’t Warrant Full-Scale Health Study: CDC

04/20/2010 El Dorado Hills, CA (Mesothelioma News) – While residents of El Dorado Hills, Calif., face increased risk of disease from exposure to naturally occurring asbestos-in particular, a risk of mesothelioma, an almost always fatal cancer-federal health officials say that the asbestos levels don’t appear to be high enough to warrant an extensive health study. […]

New York lab violates asbestos laws! Mesothelioma Cancer News

Federal grand jury indicts Syracuse laboratory for asbestos violations. Syracuse, NY (MesotheliomaCancerNews.com)—A Syracuse-based environmental lab, Certified Environmental Services, Inc. (CES), is named in a 16-count indictment from a New York federal grand jury, for falsifying test results to cover up inadequate asbestos removal projects throughout the city, as reported by News Day. The 16-count indictment […]

Pennsylvania town contaminates public swimming pool!

Cambria County town illegally dumps toxic asbestos at recreation spots. Pittsburgh, PA(MesotheliomaCancerNews.com)–Nanty Glo, a small borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, is embroiled in accusations of illegal dumping of asbestos materials in one of the town’s popular recreation spots, Nanty Glo Park and Pool, as reported by WJACTV. The whistler blower, Tom Kasecky, a former Nanty […]

Illinois Mesothelioma Cancer News: lung cancer death lawsuit

Illinois mesothelioma lung cancer death lawsuit recovers $2 million for grieving family. Bloomington, IL(MesotheliomaCancerNews.com)–A McLean County, Illinois jury returned a $2 million verdict, last Thursday, to the family of a deceased woman, who died from asbestos exposure related cancer. As reported by the Pantagraph, Leslie Corry, of Bloomington, Illinois, died from mesothelioma lung cancer after […]

Oregon DEQ issues asbestos exposure violation fines!

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued asbestos penalty. Portland,OR(JusticeNewsFlash.com)–The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) fined commercial property owners for allowing unlicensed workers to perform an asbestos abatement project in a building they own. Commercial building owners, Timothy John Fitzpatrick and Kelli Ellena Fitzpatrick, were only fined $1,000 for potentially releasing toxic asbestos fibers […]

Sydney, Australia jury compensates $500,000 asbestos death claim

Australia Court of Appeals upholds $500,000 mesothelioma death verdict. Sydney, Australia(JusticeNewsFlash.com)–An Australia Court of Appeals upheld a record Dust Diseases Tribunal award against James Hardie a building material producer. The legal action was filed by Margaret Dawson, the 64 year-old wife and daughter of two asbestos materials workers at the building product plant who handled […]