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Results of a recently completed study reveal a possible genetic predisposition to developing asbestos related diseases, including mesothelioma and asbestosis. Findings were published August 7 in BMC Genomics, an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of gene mapping, sequencing and analysis, functional genomics, and proteomics.
Plans to expand Middle Park High School in Granby, Colorado, were delayed this summer when construction crews found more asbestos than expected during renovation work on the existing facility. The Sky-Hi Daily News, which covers Granby along with Winter Park and other cities in the region, says crews planned asbestos abatement as part of a 12-week project, but uncovered asbestos in vinyl flooring, which they had not anticipated.
Officials in the town of Dundee, New York, are assuring residents a ball field located adjacent to the International School there is safe for young people to play on, despite an asbestos abatement project underway inside the nearby buildings. A Wiffle ball field was recently created on the site when residents in a nearby town objected to the commotion from an existing field near their houses, according to a report in the Greenwich Post.
An Illinois power company recently obtained permission from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to try to remove chunks of asbestos and asbestos particles from sand dredged from a canal that draws water from Lake Michigan. This is the latest in a series of concerns about asbestos that wash up onto Illinois shores, including Illinois Beach State Park, dubbed Asbestos Beach by environmental watchdog groups.
A new report written by a physician practicing at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease (CARD) in Libby, Montana, predicts an epidemic of mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer, in the next 10 to 20 years. The report was featured in a report by the Daily Inter Lake, which serves northwest Montana.
According to a news release from the claims processing agent for W.R. Grace & Co. Bankruptcy, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has set a Bar Date for Zonolite Attic Insulation (ZAI) claims to be filed in the W.R. Grace Bankruptcy case. To preserve a claim against W.R. Grace & Co. and related entities (”Grace”), all persons and entities with ZAI claims must file on or before Oct. 31, 2008. Grace filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on April 2, 2001. More information and a downloadable claim form is available on the WR Grace Bankruptcy Claims Information Site.
Judge Donald Molloy has set a status hearing for all parties involved in the W.R. Grace criminal case in Missoula, Montana, Oct. 24. The criminal charges were initially filed in 2005, and alleges W.R. Grace knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other Libby, Montana, residents. The company is charged with charged with violating the Clean Air Act by releasing asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from its mine there. Asbestos disease devastated the town of Libby, affecting miners who worked in the now-closed vermiculite mine.
Residents of Libby, Montana, and Environmental Protection Agency officials were stumped July 1 when a large chunk of vermiculite asbestos was found in Riverfront Memorial Park, a site that had been cleaned three previous times for asbestos contamination. Libby is the location of one of the most well known and widespread asbestos contamination episodes in the United States, and is a multi-million dollar Superfund cleanup site.
About a month ago, this site shared information about the latest investigation of Chicago’s Oak Street Beach, which has been examined several times by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because of asbestos contamination. In June, the Environmental News Service, an independently owned and operated daily international wire service for environmental news, reported the beach has been inundated with asbestos fibers from the Johns-Manville Asbestos Superfund site for the past 20 years.
The discovery of a vein of asbestos on the site of the $100 million state prison in Grayson County, Virginia, has halted construction, according to a report published today by the Winston-Salem Journal. The project is on hold while developers determine how to remove or contain the mineral. Exposure to asbestos fibers is linked to the development of mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases.
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