Peter Jennings Dies From Lung Cancer
ABC news anchor Peter Jennings has died from lung cancer at the age of 67.
The Asbestos Mess
When the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 10 Republican members voted in May to send asbestos-trust-fund legislation to the Senate floor, they signaled two things: that a trust fund is the best a Republican Congress can do to solve the asbestos-litigation mess, and that the last best hope for victims and beleaguered businesses is to crack down on litigation fraud.
Fear of asbestos-like fibers makes some wary of using taconite tailings
VIRGINIA - Highway workers are putting the finishing touches on an interchange here that includes more than a million tons of an extra-hard rock blasted and crushed from the region's taconite mines.
Over 250 asbestos-linked health consultations handled in July
_ Local governments and labor bureaus nationwide handled more than 250 cases of consultations on asbestos-related health problems in about a month to the end of July, amid growing public concerns on the issue, a Kyodo News survey released Saturday said.
Scientists wary of expanding taconite tailings use
Highway workers are putting the finishing touches on an interchange near Virginia, Minnesota here that includes more than a million tons of an extra-hard rock blasted and crushed from the region's taconite mines.
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(AP) Virginia, Minn. Highway workers are putting the finishing touches on an interchange here that includes more than a million tons of an extra-hard rock blasted and crushed from the region's taconite mines.
Pill as deadly as asbestos
The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that it now categorises the Pill as a grade three substance. This gives the Pill the same cancer-causing potential as asbestos.
Gov't informed of resident with asbestos-linked disease in 1987
_ The government was informed in 1987 of a case that a woman who lived near an asbestos-related factory had died of cancer following exposure to the carcinogenic substance, government officials said Friday.
National surveys looking at where and how much
MISSOULA -- Efforts are under way to determine the extent of asbestos contamination in communities where vermiculite ore from the former W.R. Grace plant was sent.
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