“It’s the American dream interrupted,” says the attorney representing a man whose wife and law partner died from a rare form of cancer he claims was caused by exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder. (more…)

Collegiate Academies had scheduled to open Rosenwald Collegiate Academy in Orleans Parish in Louisiana in August, but after air quality testing revealed airborne asbestos in the building, the building has been shuttered. Abatement of the cancer-causing mineral will cost the district $1.3 million. (more…)

The completion of the Interstate 11 bypass in Boulder City, Nevada, and plans for an interstate linking Phoenix and Las Vegas promises a housing and business boom in the desert. But it is raising safety concerns among residents. That’s because digging up long-dormant areas of the desert could disturb naturally occurring asbestos in the earth. If its microscopic fibers go airborne, those exposed are at risk for serious health consequences. (more…)

Cousins Conor Lewis and Zack Johnson had a difficult time understanding how their 90-year-old grandmother developed fatal mesothelioma. So, they set off across the country on their bicycles to find out why. Then Lewis turned the experience into a documentary. (more…)

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It’s hard for Dr. Brad Black to fathom why the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is easing restrictions for asbestos-containing products when so many countries have banned the cancer-causing mineral because of its toxicity to humans. But it’s even more frustrating that companies blamed for knowingly exposing his patients to asbestos have hired doctors and radiologists to dispute his findings. (more…)

Chrysotile Alliance, an International Trade Union, issued a media release that it is applauding the decision of Russian space industry specialists to use products containing the white asbestos chrysotile in materials used for in-orbit objects, such as the asbestos-cement laminate on the vehicle skin. (more…)

Activists are fighting an Ithaca, New York developer over the demolition of an old public library, arguing that tearing down the building before removing the asbestos poses a public health risk for residents in the area. (more…)

When Wanda Quisenberry was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure, she sued several companies she claimed exposed her to the cancer-causing mineral, including Huntington Ingalls Inc., a company that employed her father. (more…)

Just months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump administration unveiled plans to ease its oversight on cancer-causing asbestos to allow new uses, Canada announced it will ban the mineral effective by the end of the year. (more…)

Exposure to asbestos can cause serious illnesses including the incurable lung disease asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma, a rare but deadly form of cancer that develops in the lining of the lungs, abdomen, or chest. These diseases can take 10 to 50 years to develop. Once diagnosed, the prognosis is generally grim with many dying within 18 months. (more…)