ASBESTOS UPDATE: Carson City Awarded $400T in Brownfield Grants

Brownfield grants totaling US$400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were awarded to Carson City, Nev., to assess contaminants including asbestos in the city’s redevelopment districts, the Mesothelioma Resource Center reports.

According to the Nevada Appeal newspaper, the funding from the…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Former Chicago City Worker Charged for Bribery

On Aug. 24, 2010, Michael Cease, a 40-year-old former senior inspector with the City of Chicago Department of Environment, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, according to an Office of the Inspector General press release dated…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: EPA Oversees Ambler Superfund Site Maintenance

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overseeing stream bank maintenance work along the Wissahickon Creek at the former Ambler Asbestos Superfund Site in Pennsylvania, according to an EPA press release dated Aug. 24, 2010.

The maintenance work is needed to help…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Atkins Action v. 20 Firms Filed Aug. 9 in Texas

Jack Atkins on Aug. 9, 2010, filed an asbestos-related lawsuit against 20 defendant corporations in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.

Mr. Atkins claims he developed an asbestos-related disease different from the other non-malignant asbestos-related disease for…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Oregon DEQ to OK Plan for Sunriver Amphitheater

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality proposes to approve a plan to cap soil contaminated with asbestos at the Sunriver Owners Association Amphitheater Site, according to an Ore. DEQ press release dated Aug. 10, 2010.

DEQ has determined that this action…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: St. Joseph’s Hospice to Get GBP10,000 in Payout

A High Court judge awarded St. Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, east London, more than GBP10,000, plus interest, against a Company held liable over the death of one of its patients from mesothelioma, The Press Association reports.

James Wilson, who lived in…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Coca-Cola Remains Party to Aqua-Chem Suit

The Coca-Cola Company is still disputing former subsidiary Aqua- Chem, Inc.’s (n/k/a Cleaver-Brooks, Inc.) claims over Aqua-Chem’s demands for about US$10 million for out-of-pocket asbestos litigation-related expenses.

During the period from 1970 to 1981, the Company owned Aqua-Chem. A division of…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: EPA Talks on Remediation Inquiry at BoRit Site

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s representatives, a July 14, 2010 meeting, discussed with the Community Advisory Group regarding data from the first stage of the remedial investigation at the BoRit asbestos site, Montgomery Media reports.

The site, located in Ambler Borough,…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Court OKs Moore Remand Bid in Case v. Metalclad

The U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, granted Homer Moore’s motion to remand an asbestos lawsuit filed against various defendants, including Metalclad Insulation Corporation.

The case is styled Homer Moore, Plaintiff v. Asbestos Defendants (B*P), et al,…

ASBESTOS UPDATE: Gladden Case v. 30 Firms Filed on May 3 in Tex.

A couple from Port Arthur, Tex., Floyd D. Gladden Jr. and Rebecca E. Gladden, on May 3, 2010, filed an asbestos-related lawsuit against 30 defendant corporations in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.

Manufacturing and equipment defendants…

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