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Despite the fact that widespread use of asbestos and asbestos-laden products was largely abandoned in the late 1970s, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the substance, it continues to be a problem. While the EPA’s ban on asbestos was eventually overturned as unconstitutional, public awareness made continued use of asbestos difficult.

vermiculiteAccording to a recent article from Huffington Post, we are still seeing a great deal of asbestos concerns across the country, and there are no signs the problem is going away any time soon. In the past month, there have been reports of a veterans’ medical center in Denver having asbestos exposure problems, contamination at an elementary school, and contaminated drinking water due to asbestos pollution in a river. Continue reading

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There are several treatment options available for patients who are diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma. The problem with all of these treatment options is they generally do not work very well. Mostly, they are able to sustain a patient’s life for a matter of months, so the victim has longer to spend with his or her family. However, those few extra months, even in the best-case scenarios, come at very high cost.

syringe-1238929-mTreatment options typically involve large doses of potent chemotherapy and radiation, and may involve invasive surgery where entire organs and large sections of tissue are removed. Once the organ tissue is removed, more chemotherapy or radiation is administered internally to the site of the tumor. Even if these procedures are successful, most patients will still die shortly after the procedure and will be in a great deal of pain during that time. Continue reading

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According to a recent feature from ABC News 10, two full-time employees of University of California Davis and five students have decided to blow the whistle on what they consider to be a problem dating back several years. These seven individuals have filed whistleblower complaints with UC Berkeley.

old-schools-class-room-881694-mAll of these whistleblowers work in the technology department, where they are responsible for bringing audiovisual equipment to various classrooms and offices when it is needed. There are four other employees working in their department. The focus of their complaints revolves around the fact that they are required to drill holes in walls and other structures in order to install equipment. Continue reading

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Soto v. BorgWarner Morse TEC, an appeal in the Court of Appeal for the State of California’s Second District, involved a plaintiff who died from asbestos-related mesothelioma. Several surviving family members of the Plaintiff, including plaintiff’s adult children and grandmother, filed the lawsuit against a variety of defendants the family alleged was responsible for plaintiff’s asbestos exposure and ultimate death from mesothelioma. The case proceeded to a bifurcated jury trial.welder Continue reading

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Last month, a seven-alarm fire turned a large mill near the city of Worcester, Massachusetts into huge piles of rubble spread out over the large industrial lot. The owner of the lot wishes to demolish the rest of the rubble and clear the lot, but he is currently awaiting the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to work with him on the required state-approved asbestos abatement plan, before any work can begin, according to a recent news article from the Worcester Telegram.

oldfactoryAround a week after the large blaze that destroyed the mill, the owner submitted his plan to MassDEP for review and approval. Pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the federal government, asbestos abatement must be performed and complete before any demolition work can begin. Continue reading

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According to a recent report from Recycling Today, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) issued a fine of over $36,000 to a recycling company in Millbury, Massachusetts for allegedly violating the Commonwealth’s law regarding the handling and disposal of asbestos and mercury.

asbestosdangerMassDEP employed both its asbestos program and an “Environmental Strike Force” the agency maintains, which conducts unannounced inspections to make sure companies are following the rules, to get into the facility to see if there were any violations. According to one agency spokesperson, when they arrived at the recycling facility, they found large pieces of asbestos insulation, which was both dry and not secured in a container, lying on the ground. They also found asbestos on scrap metal and deteriorating boilers that were in open-air lots. Continue reading

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According to a recent news story from The Buffalo News, a New York trial court jury has just awarded a plaintiff $1.42 million in mesothelioma case. The trial lasted nine days, and the plaintiff was a former United States military service member who was exposed to deadly asbestos material during his military career.   The defendant was a maker of asbestos gaskets based out of Chicago, and the claim in the case was wrongful death under a theory of negligence. Continue reading

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Anyone who lives in the Washington, DC area is well aware of the troubles with the aging metro system, which operates much like Boston’s T system. However, unlike in Boston, the subway stations are very deep underground and there are huge escalators to take passengers up and down at the stations. Unfortunately, they are rarely working, and this is one of the major concerns of residents and tourists.

washington-metro-1220364There have also been several incidents that made national news over the past several years. The 2009 train crash, which resulted in numerous deaths and many cases of serious personal injury, was one of these events, as was the incident earlier this year when a train got caught in a smoke-filled tunnel for hours as rescue workers were not able to help to due broken radios and other problems. In that incident, one passenger died from smoke inhalation, and many others were seriously injured. Continue reading

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Before everyone had a television and long before the Internet was invented, a world’s fair was an exciting event where people got a glimpse of innovative new products and inventions and envisioned what the future might hold.

asbestoswallAs Arnold Koch describes in his recent article for Wicked Local Melrose, the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens, New York was considered by many to the be the best event of this type ever produced. Time Magazine ran a feature of the 1939 World’s Fair and proclaimed it the “greatest show of all times.”

The fair featured political breakthroughs on the horizon, such as a stimulus package designed to lift at troubled nation out of the Great Depression. This was a time when unemployment was about 17 percent. There were demonstrations of new technologies, such as television, which had just been invented. There were concepts of the futuristic city of tomorrow, an idea later championed by Walt Disney, and many other things people considered to be modern marvels of the day. During the fair’s run, around 30 million people would pay the 75 cents admission and witness the future. Continue reading

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Being a professional firefighter is a dangerous job. There is no question every time a firefighter responds to a call, he or she may be asked to rush into a burning hot building that is on the verge of collapsing. There have been many firefighters who were killed in the line of duty trying to rescue people or put out a fire.

hospitalThere have been cases where roofs or upper floors collapse on firefighters working in the building. We have also seen cases where the fire gets out of control or there is an explosion and the firefighters are severely injured or killed. In addition to the dangers of explosions and falling debris, one of the major causes of serious illness or death for firefighters is smoke inhalation. Many firefighters do not have proper safety gear on, or, if they do, they take it off too soon while still on the scene of the fire and within the area of danger for smoke inhalation. Continue reading

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