Attorney John Langdoc from Baron & Budd, P.C. has worked with too many career painters with increased cancer risks due to their exposure to asbestos. Most career painters possess no idea that they possess ever worked around asbestos, but the toxic substance was widely used in block filler, texturing paint as well as drywall compounds [...]
The Michigan Occupational Safety & Health Administration (MIOSHA) sponsored a filled day symposium on May 6 at the Michigan State Police Training Academy in Lansing that was designed to educate trainers as well as contractors on various asbestos issues. The symposium covered Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards as well as procedures, laws as well as [...]
The Schenectady County Community Library in New York plans to double the size of the children’s wing, add an additional elevator, as well as convert all the restrooms to be handicap accessible. Before the renovations can begin, there must be an abatement procedure to remove asbestos from the basement, the piping as well as the [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $200,000 to the Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison as well as Oneida Counties in New York for reviving brownfields. The brownfield project reclaims land contaminated by environmental hazards, providing jobs as well as preserving the environment. This project will train local area workers to uncluttered up sites [...]
Pemetrexed, which is marketed as Alimta, is a chemotherapy drug that has been FDA-approved to treat malignant pleural mesothelioma. French researchers reported at the 2nd European Lung Cancer Conference that their Phase I clinical trial suggested that pemetrexed is as well as tolerated well enough to take a high dose in combination with concurrent radiation [...]
The American Cancer Society sponsors a nationwide program called “Look Pleasant … Feel Better” that helps cancer patients regain their self-image by giving them the tools as well as the skills to improve their appearance. Brenda Montoya has volunteered to teach the class two hours a month for the final 15 years in Port St. [...]
CZ Becker, a wood floor restoration company, has been fined $3,600 by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for improper removal of 100 square feet of asbestos floor tiles final June. Workers used a mechanical sander on the asbestos flooring, which most likely released asbestos fibers into the air.
Asbestos fibers are toxic, as the bodily [...]
In a meeting that took place on May 6 at the Gig Harbor Civic Center in Washington, the city of Gig Harbor invited the community to voice opinions about road closure scheduling as well as proposed detours to offer convenience to as many as likely during an upcoming construction project. The water main in the [...]
GRL Properties LLC, based in Grand Rapids was charged with willful as well as humorless violations regarding the John Bean building in Lansing. The Michigan Occupational Safety & Health Administration (MIOSHA) launched an investigation which found that GRL did not conduct a proper inspection for asbestos as well as that workers were told that the [...]
Three companies—Keeney Rigging as well as Trucking, Inc., a transport company based in Connecticut, GKN Sinter Metals, Inc. Michigan based smelting company, as well as Joseph Freedman Co., Inc., a Massachusetts scrap yard—have settled with Massachusetts Attorney Common Martha Coakley in cases involving the improper handling of asbestos.
The matter centers around three ovens that were [...]
