The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine affirmed the ruling of the Cumberland County Superior Court, which dismissed as time-barred an asbestos lawsuit against WLB Holding, Inc. (f/k/a W.L. Blake & Co.).
The case is styled Aubert A. Godbout et al. v.…
The former Augusta Tissue Mill on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, has more asbestos than previously anticipated by engineers, Mesothelioma reports.
The problem was first reported in June 2009.
In Augusta, the US$25,000 set aside by the city to remove that…
The town of Orono, Maine, will receive US$200,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the form of a Brownfield cleanup grant, Mesothelioma.com reports.
The grant will be used in the Webster Mill redevelopment project. The Webster Mill site was once…
American Biltrite Inc. is still assessing the potential availability of insurance coverage for costs over a former vinyl plant in Lisbon Falls, Maine.
The State of Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) has put Miller Industries, Inc, the present owner…