New asbestos threats affect veterans, workers, children and drinking water
In the last month alone, asbestos contamination has plagued a veterans’ medical center in Denver, construction workers rehabbing a school in southern Illinois as well as an elementary school in the...
View ArticleNew Zealand to Ban Imports of Asbestos-Containing Products
In a move to protect the public health of its citizens, New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment announced this week that it will end importation of asbestos-containing products. Although shipments...
View ArticleCongress Poised to Put 9/11 Heroes at Risk
By Alex Formuzis, Vice President for Strategic Campaigns In less than 20 minutes, the terrorist-controlled airliners hit both towers of the World Trade Center complex on the morning of September 11,...
View ArticleTwisted Fate of 9/11: Heroes and Deadly Dust
By Linda Reinstein The Deadly Dust From Los Angeles, we watched on television as the search and rescue mission unfolded and the ominous clouds of heavy white dust blanketed the rubble, enveloping...
View ArticleFederal Regulators Knew in 1976 that Asbestos Can ContaminateTalc
By Bill Walker, investigations editor FairWarning reported that a March 1976 Food and Drug Administration memo it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act “charged that cosmetics makers had been...
View ArticleAsbestos-tainted Crayons Turn Up Down Under
Government tests have found asbestos in crayons sold in Australia and New Zealand. In response, Australia’s consumer agency has asked stores to stop selling the suspect brands and some stores in New...
View ArticleRep. Farenthold: Pillar of privacy protection, but not for asbestos victims
“In America, we have a right to privacy and that right should be upheld.” We couldn’t agree more with that stirring affirmation from Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas). In May, he tweeted that comment to...
View ArticleAlabama Verdict Underscores Threat to Families of Asbestos Workers
Most victims of asbestos-related diseases were exposed on the job, or by using a product containing the deadly mineral. But others are among the “third wave” of the asbestos epidemic – people whose...
View ArticleFirefighters and teachers bear outsize burden of asbestos deaths
By Bill Walker, Investigations Editor, EWG and the EWG Action Fund Asbestos does not discriminate. But of the estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Americans who die of asbestos-related diseases each year, some...
View ArticleU.S. Chamber-Backed Bill Bashed by Chamber Audience
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform just devoted much of an entire day bemoaning the proliferation of breaches of Americans’ personal data. We at EWG Action Fund find it...
View ArticleDubious Achievement: U.S. Chamber Honors W. Va. Lawmakers For Efforts to...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has honored two West Virginia legislators for “principled leadership” and pushing through “historic [legal] reforms.” Survivors of the thousands of West Virginians who have...
View ArticlePennsylvania’s Asbestos Problem
Townsfolk called them “the white mountains of Ambler” – the piles of asbestos-laced material that loomed above the neighborhood adjacent to one of the asbestos factories in the hamlet on the outskirts...
View ArticleAsbestos Industry Bill Meets Strong Opposition During Senate Hearing
Anti-asbestos victims legislation in the Senate, backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and major corporations and insurance companies, was met with a thud this week at a hearing before the Senate...
View ArticleScience For Sale: Ford Spends $40M to Discredit Danger of Asbestos Brakes
By Bill Walker, Investigations Editor A new investigation by Jim Morris of the Center for Public Integrity found that since 2001, Ford has paid nearly $40 million to science-for-hire consultants whose...
View ArticleMaine Has Highest Annual Asbestos Death Rate in the Nation, Says New Report
Maine — Relative to its population, more residents of Maine die each year from asbestos-triggered diseases than any other state in the country, according to an analysis by EWG Action Fund....
View ArticleHow to Talk to Your Child’s School About Asbestos
By Megan Boyle, Healthy Child, Healthy World Across the United States, too many students and teachers continue to be at risk of inhaling harmful asbestos fibers in their schools’ classrooms, cafeterias...
View ArticleDeadly Deception: How the Asbestos Industry Covered Up the Danger for...
By Alex Formuzis – VP, strategic campaigns, EWG Action Fund The asbestos industry was well aware that asbestos was deadly. Yet, the companies that mined asbestos, and those that exposed workers,...
View Article25 Years After Court Gutted Rule, EPA Could Finally Ban Asbestos
By Alex Formuzis, VP for strategic campaigns, EWG Action Fund Linda Reinstein, co-founder and CEO, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization An Environmental Protection Agency decision on which 10...
View ArticleEPA Nominee Pruitt Refused to Promise Asbestos Ban
By Alex Formuzis, VP strategic campaigns, EWG Action Fund Asbestos-triggered diseases kill up to 15,000 Americans each year, and since its introduction in the 1930s this notorious carcinogen has...
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