In a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) lawsuit filed on April 21, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is improperly withholding a report on whether its cleanup in Libby, Mont., is adequate to protect the residents of that community,…
Albania Deleon, former president of Massachusetts’ largest asbestos removal training school, has been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “environmental fugitives” Web site, according to an EPA press release dated April 2, 2009.
Ms. Deleon failed to appear for her…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding nine new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, according to an EPA press releases dated April 8, 2009.
Also, EPA…
Met-Pro Corporation, as of Jan. 31, 2009, faced 57 asbestos- related cases pending against it (with a majority of those cases pending in New York, Mississippi and Maryland), as compared with 38 cases that were pending as of Jan. 31,…
Inspections over the past year of schools in New England by EPA underscore the need for school districts to be vigilant in protecting students’ health by following asbestos management requirements, according to an EPA press release dated April 2, 2009.
In…
FutureFuel Corp.’s subsidiary, FutureFuel Chemical Company, and its operations may be parties to, or targets of, lawsuits, claims, investigations and proceedings, including asbestos.
No other asbestos-related matters were disclosed in the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Alfredene Surgers, on behalf of her late husband Joseph Wayne Surgers, on March 23, 2009, filed an asbestos-related lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.
Some of the 82 defendants in the suit are A.W. Chesterton…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on March 20, 2009 that it has assumed the responsibility for implementation of provisions of the Clean Air Act Asbestos Program in Georgia, according to an EPA press release dated March 20, 2009.
Because of…
The mid-Atlantic office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on March 12, 2009, announced that the owners of the school buildings for the Grace Cooperative Nursery in Aberdeen, Md., and the Maryland School for the Blind in Baltimore, have settled…