Potsdam, New York Village Court Clerk Shelley Warner was fired nearly a year ago for insubordination immediately after she expressed concern about potential asbestos contamination as well as other workplace safety issues in a newspaper article. Ms. Warner filed suit for wrongful termination in September. She claims she was fired for speaking out, not for [...]
The community turned up as well as spoke out on the issue of an asbestos landfill in the city of Troy, Montana. The state was willing to pay Troy to turn an existing landfill on the outskirts of town into a toxic dump, but citizens were against it with a passion. Speakers talked about potential [...]
The Community Development Support Association is trying to raise $2.9 million for Smart Start Beginning Childhood Development Center, a nonprofit learning center for Enid, Oklahoma’s underprivileged kids. Two recent donations totaling $700K will go a extended way toward meeting that goal. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a Brownfields Cleanup Grant of $200,000 to remove [...]
In February, thoracic surgeon Jonathan C. Daniel, MD performed a highly intricate surgery on a patient that may add years to his life. James Massie didn’t possess much hope. He was in the advanced stages of mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure. Although his prognosis then looked fairly grim, today Mr. Massie is existing a fairly [...]
After the ceiling tiles at Dutrow Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia were found to contain asbestos during a routine check, school officials made the decision to test all 12 schools in the district for asbestos contamination. School officials don’t expect to find without money air quality, but consider the testing prudent. Outbuildings as well [...]
The Barclay Deconstruction as well as Reclamation pilot project is designed to take on two of the city’s most pressing problems: decrepit abandoned buildings as well as large numbers of released former convicts. Baltimore, Maryland puts more people in jail per capita than any other city in America—more than 4,000 daily, most of them for [...]
During June 13 services at the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, part of the plaster ceiling collapsed on parishioners. Twelve parishioners were used to the hospital with head as well as neck injuries, but all were released by the following day. The debris was tested as well as found to contain asbestos, so the church was [...]
The City of Recent Haven, Connecticut Office of Economic Development is using steps to ensure best environmental sustainability in the form of large-scale recycling. They’ve just launched a recent Contractor Deconstruction Training Program to teach contractors how to disassemble buildings, as opposed to demolishing them. This allows for reuse as well as recycling of materials, [...]
The aged fire hall on LeRoy St. in Fenton, Michigan is a brick building with a lot of character. City officials hope to sell the 6,000 square ft. building to a developer who will turn it into a commercial property either whole or divided for dissimilar uses, similar restaurants, shops as well as even a [...]
Mayor Judy Paul of Davie, Florida is adamant about replacing asbestos-cement pipes running under the closed Palma Nova mobile home community before it is redeveloped as a city park. The pipes once supplied water as well as sewer to a population of about 3,500 residents; some town officials argue that the pipes are protected as [...]
