The residents of Holbury, Hampshire, England, are planning to fight controversial plans to store asbestos at a waste site that backs onto homes in a Hampshire village, the Southern Daily Echo reports.
Solent Environmental Services wants to install a large-scale skip…
Shirley Guy and Louise Dale Chancey, on May 14, 2010, filed an asbestos-related lawsuit against 48 defendant corporations in Kanawha Circuit Court, W.Va., The West Virginia Record reports.
The suit says that Mr. Chancey was diagnosed with lung cancer on Aug.…
Asbestos piping and floor tiles will be removed from part of the Valu King Food Market grocery store building in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, as the Ohio Department of Development has awarded the city with a US$415,000 grant to fund the abatement,…
An asbestos lawsuit styled Roy E. Scudder vs. CSX Transportation, Inc., individually and as successor-in-interest to Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company; and Chessie System was filed on June 8, 2010 in Kanawha Circuit Court, W.Va., The West Virginia Record reports.
Roy…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is probing an anonymous complaint that workers had found high levels of asbestos while working on a renovation project at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Mass., Mesothelioma.com reports.
However, the project manager on site has…
The former town hall of Seekonk, Mass., is riddled with mold and must be tested for asbestos, Mesothelioma.com reports.
Although the floods of late March 2010 have subsided, it is clear that the water has affected the building. The old town…
The removal of asbestos from old Newton North High School in Newton, Mass., is part of a US$10 million demolition project, the Mesothelioma Resource Center reports.
The demolition of the old Newton North High School will begin in the summer of…
An asbestos-related legal malpractice lawsuit filed by Judy Buckles against the law firm of Goldenberg Heller, Antognoli and Rowland of Edwardsville, Ill., is ongoing, the Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center reports.
Mrs. Buckles is suing for the firm’s failure to secure…
On May 14, 2010, John Wheeler Estep Jr., of Catlettsburg, Ky., filed an asbestos lawsuit against 56 defendant corporations in Kanawha Circuit Court, W.Va., The West Virginia Record reports.
On Oct. 30, 2009, Mr. Estep was diagnosed with lung cancer. He…
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization urges the Canadian Parliament to oppose Quebec government’s offering of $58 million loan guarantee that would enable Jeffrey Mine Inc. to open up a new underground asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, according to an ADAO…