The Ohio Department of Development announced recently that $200,000 from a recent fund designed to uncluttered up as well as revitalize historic sites was awarded to the Cleveland Community Theatre to help renovate the theater as well as remove asbestos from the ceiling. The effort is part of the multimillion-dollar redevelopment that has used place [...]
Demolition of the decrepit former Gro Mor fertilizer distribution facility in Plant City, Florida was delayed by the discovery of asbestos used in the building materials. The eyesore, located south of the historic downtown district, was purchased by the city for $600,000 using Community Redevelopment Agency funds. City officials hope to attract recent business to [...]
Carson City, Nevada will benefit from $400,000 in federal government brownfield grants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address toxic contamination issues in city redevelopment districts. The grants will provide funding for assessment of petroleum, lead-based paint, asbestos as well as other hazardous contaminants for up to 15 targeted commercial properties. After the initial [...]
The aged nursing school dormitory in Moline, Iowa has been undergone asbestos abatement four times, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says more tests are needed before the building can be demolished. An EPA spokesperson said that, even though the asbestos tiles possess been removed, contamination may possess spread to the surrounding soil, brick as [...]
Dayton city officials said recently that a company has purchased the aged Howard Paper Company building. Garrett Day, LLC of Lexington, Kentucky bought the asbestos-ridden building that has become a home for vagrants as well as drug activity. Demolition will begin next spring following asbestos abatement. The city will request a grant from the Uncluttered [...]
Stevenson University in Baltimore, Maryland hired Urban Green Environmental LLC to conduct an environmental study of the former Rosewood Center in Owings Mills to evaluate contamination as well as assess the suitability of the property for a proposed expansion of the school campus. Contamination was discovered in the former institution for mentally disabled people during [...]
The City of Des Moines, Iowa has offered to purchase the aged downtown YWCA building for just over $1 million, but the cost of demolishing the building with asbestos abatement could cost in excess of $1.85 million. Initial estimates were in the neighborhood of $700,000. City officials would similar to own the centrally located property, [...]
Since unhurried April, the Asbestos, Lead as well as Hazardous Waste Laborers’ Local 78 has been disrupting country clubs in as well as around Recent Jersey as well as New York to force the clubs to unionize their groundskeepers. Union protestors earliest struck the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus in April, planting a coffin with [...]
Dr. Michael Thun, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society says that lung cancer is underfunded due to without money community perception. Although 35% of women diagnosed with lung cancer never smoked or lived with smokers, community perception is that people with lung cancer are to blame for their own illness. Since most people develop [...]
Pompano Beach runner Larry Davis is a man on a mission. Davis was diagnosed years ago with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure. But now, years later, he spends his time raising awareness of the disease. Recently he made a trip to Washington to consult for support from Congress to declare [...]
