Talc Asbestos Concerns Ignored By EPA Risk Assessment, Critics Say
Group blasts EPA for not including talc in its assessment of asbestos exposure threats.…
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Group blasts EPA for not including talc in its assessment of asbestos exposure threats.…
The EPA has concluded that chrysotile asbestos, used in gaskets and aftermarket automotive brakes and linings, represents an unreasonable risk to the health of consumers, workers and bystanders.…
A federal judge has ordered the EPA to close asbestos-reporting loopholes which prevent the agency from accurately assessing the risks of asbestos exposure to U.S. consumers.…
An upcoming study warns that women and the elderly are seeing increases in mesothelioma rates due to non-occupational exposures.…
A draft evaluation by EPA experts indicates the risks of asbestos exposure are too great to justify keeping any asbestos products on the market.…
Former public health officials are blasting the EPA for failing to ban asbestos, saying the agency continues to place American lives at risk for little to no benefit.…
New internal memos show that the EPA disregarded complaints by its own experts when forging ahead with a new asbestos rule which allows manufacturers to seek approval for both new and old uses.…
Sea King helicopters, in service in the U.S. and other navies for decades, may have put those around them at risk of asbestos exposure, the U.K. military warns.…
A new report indicates that between 12,000 and 15,000 people in the U.S. die of asbestos-related illnesses every year.…
The consumer watchdog group Public Citizen warns that an asbestos transparency bill introduced in the House of Representatives does little more than give companies a way to indefinitely delay payments to mesothelioma victims.…