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

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

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

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

Today's post is shared from nejm.org "Each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die often painful, protracted deaths from diseases ca...

Today, the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm United Nations Conventions concluded, with some major steps taken by parties to con...

Today’s post is shared from ewg.com The rule announced today by the US Environmental Protection Agency claiming to strengthe...

Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature has made history by passing a bill to ban the sale of asbestos products in the State. The legi...

Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, along with Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and...

U.S. Senators Jon Tester and Steve Daines championed legislation to designate April 1-7, 2019 "National Asbestos Awareness Week" a...

The following comment was submitted by Linda Reinstein, President/CEO, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) in response to the US...

Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley , along with Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bernie Sanders (I-VT...

Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous mineral which was widely used in the manufacture of a variety of products beginning in the late n...

Asbestos Insulation Asbestos is not banned in the US and continues to be a cause of deadly disease to workers.  Asbestos , a deadly subs...

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy on National Asbestos Awareness Week  Dr. Vivek Murthy US Surgeon General National Asbesto...

Today's blog post is shared from Laurie Kazan -Allen and the http://ibasecretariat.org Part I - About the Asbestos Industry Part I...

Photo shared from AFP (Agence France-Presse) " Thousands stage Paris 'die-in' to protest asbestos"  12 Oct 2013 The i...

The US Geological survey reported today, that asbestos, still NOT yet banned in the US, is still being consumed domestically at incredible ...

Civil society groups attending the Rotterdam Convention conference in Geneva are expressing grave alarm that the Convention has been hijack...

The US Surgeon General issued an alert to Americans as to the hazards of asbestos disease , Dr. Regina Benjamin, on the occasion of National...