The 50-year-old Crestview Health as well as Rehabilitation Center in Fulton County, Georgia needs more than $15 million in renovations. Crestview serves as the county nursing home for without money, elderly or chronically sick people who can’t afford intimate care, as well as it’s running at maximum capacity. Major repairs are needed to the aging [...]
Columbia College’s Missouri Hall was once decrepit as well as unhealthy, but today it’s uncluttered as well as shining, thanks to an extensive 2006 renovation. The aged building was filled of mold as well as asbestos, a gloomy as well as potentially sickening place to be. Now it has earned the Leadership in Energy as [...]
Hunt Building Comp Ltd, Camp Pendleton as well as Quantico Housing LLC as well as Flores-Sierra contractors Inc. possess agreed to pay hefty fines stemming from charges of asbestos air quality violations after they performed work in January as well as February 2006 on base housing units in the Capehart soldierlike family housing neighborhood. Marine [...]
The tragedy continues to enfold surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center as rescue as well as cleanup workers report health issues from the toxic building debris. About 10,000 rescue as well as cleanup workers who say their health was damaged from exposure to asbestos as well as other toxic chemicals [...]
Randy Roberts is a 55-year-old Alabama man dealing with his subordinate bout with mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure. During his earliest bout, he lost part of his lung, as well as because of that, his doctors possess forbidden him to fly, which may possess meant that he could never achieve his dream of [...]
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) recently made a community announcement of gratitude as well as support for California Senator Gloria Romero for authoring a bill to remove asbestos-laden serpentine as California’s state rock as well as to the Assembly Committee on Common Resources for passing the bill.
Senator Romero stated that California has the highest [...]
The Leo Nedeff Memorial Soccer Tournament held on Glendale, California ended, fittingly, on Father’s Day. Leo Nedeff was a driving force behind youth soccer, officiating in the region as well as serving as a volunteer coach, referee, administrator as well as mentor whose boundless energy made him a local legend as well as a mentor [...]
The University of Georgetown in Washington, DC, is the nation’s oldest Catholic as well as Jesuit university, founded in 1798. This means that some of its buildings are quite aged, as well as many were erected, expanded, refurbished or renovated extended before the dangers of asbestos were known to the community. For most of the [...]
The Huron Learning Center in Michigan is moving to a recent facility, as well as teachers as well as staff couldn’t be happier. The recent 32,000 square-foot facility features secure entrances, air conditioning as well as the latest technology. The building, completed in May, has classrooms, therapy rooms, isolation rooms, a nurse’s station, offices as [...]
An innovative idea from the Lung Cancer Alliance based in Washington, DC is heartily endorsed by attorney John Langdoc, of Dallas-based law firm Baron & Budd, P.C., a well-known advocate for victims of mesothelioma as well as asbestos-related illness. The program, called Give a Scan, makes data available to cancer researchers all over the world [...]
