On November 5, 2007, Ottavio’s and Ric’s restaurants in Camarillo, California will donate half the day’s receipts to support mesothelioma research, a rare cancer that attacks the lining of the lungs, abdomen or heart and is closely associated with asbestos exposure. The restaurants will serve special menus for the occasion and have timed the event
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 31st, 2007 | No Comments »
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is winding up asbestos cleanup operations for the season and will soon begin making plans for next year. The residents of Libby, Montana have experienced high incidence of asbestos-related disease, such as mesothelioma, as a result of asbestos contamination from W.R. Grace’s vermiculite mine. This season, contractors have completed asbestos
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City officials in Fresno, California have set a November 21st deadline for the owner of the Hotel Fresno to show sufficient progress on repairs and renovations or the city will order demolition. But the current owner, who took possession of the landmark hotel this summer, is expected to seek an extension because progress has been
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
A public health office in Guelph, Ontario was closed after particles that had fallen from the ventilation system were discovered to be asbestos-containing vermiculite. Complaints about dust and dirt in the building date back to the spring. The particles contain 0.9 percent asbestos. Approximately 100 employees were evacuated from the building, and the ventilation system
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
Montana senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester are asking the U.S. Senate to allocate emergency funding for the Libby, Montana’s Center for Asbestos-Related Disease (CARD) Clinic in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill. They have requested $250,000 to support the clinic’s work serving Libby residents who suffer from asbestos-related diseases. Asbestos
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
An old Kentucky cotton mill is coming down slowly; now only one of the five buildings is left. Because of the size of the mill and because asbestos materials have been found there, necessary procedures and protections (like permits, inspections and use of licensed contractors for asbestos removal) make demolition slower and more complicated. A
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
Muncie, Indiana’s West View Elementary School is finally said to be asbestos free. One of the construction workers who helped to remove the asbestos was fired, however, after he complained that the working conditions were unsafe. Johnny Smith spoke out in the newspaper about what he believed were unsafe conditions, and now his former co-workers
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The Vista del Camino Community Center in Scottsdale, Arizona serves those on the brink of homelessness, but the center has operated out of a temporary building since Auguest 2006. The center’s home building has been closed for more than a year for asbestos removal and renovation of the facilities. After 32 years, the center underwent
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
MAC Property Management, one of the principal property management companies in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, has met with the community to address concerns about its ownership and management of so many neighborhood residential properties. MAC has purchased and plans to renovate many existing properties in Hyde Park, a south-side neighborhood that is home to the
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 24th, 2007 | No Comments »
After digging up approximately 95 tons of asbestos contaminated soil over the last three weeks, laying down a special cloth, and covering the area with at least six inches of uncontaminated soil, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed the clean up of the half-acre site beside the Nashua River and the city library. Asbestos
Filed under: General, Legal, Medical, Support on October 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »