A study released yesterday in the Lancet health examination journal found what many had feared: a substantial increase in cancer risk among firefighters who worked at the scene of the World Trade Center attack ten years ago. Among the firefighters, there was a 19% increase in cancer during the earliest seven years after 9/11. This [...]
Just final week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their filled toxicology study about the dangers of asbestos in the Montana town of Libby. The 467-page report details the EPA’s findings about the toxic contamination caused by asbestos mined from the now-defunct W.R. Grace mine near Libby. So far, contamination from the mine, which [...]
According to recent research from BBC Look East, a branch of the British Broadcasting Corporation, cancer deaths from asbestos, such as mesothelioma, are at an all-time high. As well as they are expected to rise for the next five years.
Since the 1980s in the eastern areas of England, the masculine death rate from mesothelioma has [...]
There’s been a lot of attention on Canada’s asbestos industry lately as well as, within the done 72 hours, on one Canadian widow who lost her husband to mesothelioma, a deadly cancer caused by asbestos.
Michaela Keyserlingk, whom we possess previously reported on, has been making waves in Canada over her campaign to halt the country’s [...]
The Quebec government announced Monday that it will allow more time for intimate investors attempting to relaunch the Jeffery asbestos mine to total their financing talks. The group now has until Oct. 1 to raise the $25 million the Quebec government is demanding before it can guarantee $58 million of loans. The initial deadline ran [...]
Continuing their fight for the asbestos industry, the Conservative Party of Canada recently sent a mesothelioma widow a cease-and-desist email, demanding that she halt using a banner ad that includes the party’s logo to promote her anti-asbestos website. The website, www.canadianasbestosexports.ca, calls for an end to the Canadian asbestos industry, as well as, most importantly, [...]
According to a confidential memo issued by the Canadian federal government, the country’s final fully functional asbestos mine is about to die, raising the possibility that the controversial industry may just disappear on its own in Canada.
The Common Resources Canada memo, which has been released under the Access to Information Act, estimates that the life [...]
Russell W. Budd, President of Baron & Budd PC, Joins NCCN Foundation Board of Directors
Budd’s Legal Acumen Considered Integral to Comprehensive Patient Education
Dallas, TX (February 15, 2011) — Russell W. Budd, president as well as managing shareholder of Baron & Budd, PC, has joined the Board of the National NCCN Foundation. The NCCN Foundation is [...]
The major UK retailer Marks as well as Spencer has been found guilty of asbestos violations by UK Occupational Health as well as Safety officials. Throughout the investigation, officials found that Marks as well as Spencer, in addition to two contractors, failed to take proper asbestos abatement techniques during the renovation of many of the [...]
According to a recent letter from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to U.S. Senator Max Baucus, federal regulators knew that potentially contaminated bark as well as wood chips were being sold from a Superfund site near the asbestos-tainted town of Libby, Mont. for three years before it was stopped.
The EPA has previously reported that it [...]
