Showing posts with label Asbestos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asbestos. Show all posts
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Asbestos in Cosmetics: FDA Proposes New Testing Rules

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a significant step toward enhancing consumer safety by proposing new regulations for detect...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Toxic Legacy: Unmasking Asbestos's Dangerous Past and Present

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Asbestos has long been a significant public health concern, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to take decisive steps t...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Paterson's Textile Past Unravels: EPA Tackles Asbestos Threat

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A chapter of industrial history is about to be carefully closed in the heart of Paterson, New Jersey. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agen...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Asbestos Claimants Maybe be Impacted by US Supreme Court Decision

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The recent Supreme Court oral arguments in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc. (22-1079) centered on the question of whether...
Monday, March 18, 2024

US Bans Asbestos

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Today, March 18, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule to prohibit ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos...
Friday, October 20, 2023

New EPA Rule Will Lighten the Burden of Proving an Asbestos-Related Disease Claim

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In many occupational asbestos claims, it has been challenging to establish that asbestos fiber was used in the workplace. That will soon cha...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

EPA Seeks Reporting of Asbestos Fibers

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule to require comprehensive reporting on all six fiber types of asbestos ...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

California Supreme Court Bars Household Contact Covid Claims

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Today, the California Supreme Court decided that the Workers’ Compensation Act [WCA] did not bar a derivative claim. However, using a public...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

NJ Supreme Court Enhances Workplace Safety and Adopts an Updated Standard for Medical Causation

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A divided NJ Supreme Court upheld a verdict for an employee who suffered mesothelioma, a fatal cancer, as a result of a product manufacturer...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

EPA Proposes to Ban Ongoing Uses of Asbestos

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In a historic step, the US Environmental Protection Administration [EPA] is moving to protect people from cancer risks and is moving to ban ...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Across Two Separate Settlements, EPA Commits to Expedite and Strengthen Asbestos Risk Reevaluation Under TSCA

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The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), an independent nonprofit dedicated to preventing asbestos exposure, announced it had re...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Health Advocates Petition 9th Circuit for Asbestos Relief from EPA’s Flawed Final Risk Evaluation for Asbestos

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Joined by five public health groups and six leading asbestos scientists, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) , an independent...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Talc-Based Cosmetics Test Positive for Asbestos

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Laboratory tests of talc-based cosmetics products, commissioned by the Environmental Working Group, found asbestos – a deadly human carcinog...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Asbestos Advocates and Experts Speak Out Against EPA's Flawed Draft Asbestos Risk

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Today the Asbestos Awareness Disease Organization (ADAO)—an independent nonprofit dedicated to preventing asbestos exposure through educat...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

Asbestos: Strict Liability Imposed Against Product Manufacturers for Ordinary Product Life

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The NJ Supreme Court decided an asbestos product liability case that mandates strict liability against manufacturers or distributors of prod...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Fourteen Attorney Generals Criticizes EPA for Failing to Protect Americans from Asbestos, a Long-Known Dangerous Carcinogen

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, leading a coalition of 14 attorneys general, in...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Better Chemistry Through Regulation

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The newly released movie, Dark Waters , provides a dramatic insight into the corporate disregard to human safety and life. The film, to be...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Efforts to Protect the Public From Asbestos Exposure

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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today released a new report highlighting her office’s ongoing efforts to protect children, fami...
Friday, August 23, 2019

White House Contamination Highlights Asbestos Controversy

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Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway and other senior White House aides have vacated their West Wing offices while asbestos is removed – even as ...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Cosmetic Products Containing Asbestos Recalled

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Hazardous cosmetic products containing deadly asbestos fiber continue to appear in the workplace. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...