Steven Butler lost his home in a Montana trailer court to a February 15 fire. The owner of the trailer court, C&D Properties, has provided him another home rent-free since the blaze. But Butler’s biggest champion has been a homeless veteran named Randy Hart who helped organize six companies to remove the burnt remains of [...]
North Dakota State University’s Minard Hall suffered a partial collapse on December 27. In beginning March, work crews began removing the roof from the portion of the building that collapsed. Then the workers started removing asbestos from the building, a process that was expected to take between four as well as five weeks.
Minard Hall is [...]
Temporary facilities are housing the air traffic controllers from Naval Air Station Jacksonville Air Ops in Florida while the radar room as well as control tower undergo structural upgrades. NAS Jacksonville’s control tower as well as radar room were originally built in the 1940s, as well as the upgrades are part of a joint program [...]
Asbestos cleanup is expected to begin this summer at the Manhan Rail Trail in Easthampton, Massachusetts. A trail extension project has been delayed for years because of the asbestos contamination discovered on a section of the trail. The project would as well as include an extension of the sewer line.
The asbestos contamination comes from the [...]
The Virginia Senate’s Commerce as well as Labor Committee killed a bill that had been introduced to protect Crown Cork & Seal of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from asbestos claims liability. HB629 had been introduced by Delegate Terry Kilgore, as well as it narrowly passed the House of Delegates in February.
Crown Cork & Seal purchased stock from [...]
Construction on a recent $20 million overpass in Fort Meyers, Florida has been delayed for several months due to the discovery of asbestos contamination. Posen Construction was ordered to halt construction on the Summerlin Road project when the asbestos chunks were discovered. A consultant was hired to help uncluttered up the site as well as [...]
Developer Robert Knapp of Des Moines, Iowa has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to illegal asbestos removal at the Equitable Building. Knapp as well as his project supervisor, Russell Coco, were indicted in February on 11 counts each of violating the federal Uncluttered Air Act. See related story .
The charges are related to [...]
Harborview Drive in Gig Harbor, Washington is undergoing a renovation project to replace 330 feet of asbestos cement water main between Soundview Drive as well as Pioneer Way. The recent pipes are expected to final for about 50 years. The aged pipes possess ruptured in several locations recently, moving replacement to the top of the [...]
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is under investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Department of Labor as well as the Department of Community Health following an incident where employees were exposed to asbestos during a renovation project. Any violations that involve asbestos inside the building where the renovations took place would [...]
A huge fire destroyed the Stimson Lumber plywood plant in Libby, Montana on February 25 as well as scattered large chunks of ash around town. Some of these chunks of ash possess tested positive for asbestos, so residents possess been advised not to uncluttered them up.
Asbestos contamination in Libby, caused by W.R. Grace’s vermiculate mining [...]
