Cancer risk is higher in local area because of air pollution
Fontana Herald News - Joseph Catholic Church, Fontana, with funeral mass at 11 a.m. Graveside service followed at Green Acres Memorial Park in Bloomington. The family said that donations may be made...
One Million for Meso
Yahoo Finance - The Meso Foundation Allocates $1 Million for Research to Stop Asbestos Cancer SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (Meso...
Tanker plummets off I-75, closing freeway in southwest Detroit
Detroit Free Press - Firefighters said asbestos siding helped give the residents time to escape. “We heard something go boom. Then the flames hit my window, and my bed, and we had to jump up out of...
CyberKnife Center of Tampa Bay Breaks Ground on New Site
Biloxi Sun Herald - It has proven to be successful with lung cancer, prostate, intracranial, neck, liver, pancreas, mesothelioma, and others. Tampa Bay Radiosurgical Associates, LLC will own, manage...
CyberKnife Center of Tampa Bay Breaks Ground on New Site
Forbes - It has proven to be successful with lung cancer, prostate, intracranial, neck, liver, pancreas, mesothelioma, and others. Tampa Bay Radiosurgical Associates, LLC will own, manage and...
REGIONAL NEWS: Hospital construction project in Manfield stalled over ...
News-Star - The hospital also failed to test for asbestos prior to the start of the project in mid-September. Asbestos insulation was common in buildings built during the hospital's era of the...
Foster Wheeler Awarded Circulating Fluidized-Bed Steam Generator ...
MSN MoneyCentral - ... regarding the Company's expectations regarding revenues (including as expressed by its backlog), its liquidity, the outcome of litigation and legal proceedings and recoveries...
Asbestos cover insurer launches
Insurancetimes.co.uk - St George Re, backed by Berkshire Hathaway, offers cover for corporate asbestos risk St. George Re Limited has announced that it has commenced operations to write insurance...
Springfield trades council backs Koster for attorney general
News-Leader.com - ... Bricklayers Local 15, Carpenters Local 978, Ironworkers Local 10, Operating Engineers Local 101, Roofers Local 20, Painters Local 203, Electrical Workers Local 453, Plumbers &...
Pittsfield nears funding goal for pool
Bangor Daily News - So far, she said, the pool has received donations from 103 people and businesses, including a recent $10,000 donation from Northeast Environmental Services, a Pittsfield...
Tenn. high court to decide Alcoa asbestos suit
Nashville Tennessean - Satterfield had mesothelioma, a rare cancer directly associated with asbestos exposure. She died in 2005 at the age of 25. She originally filed suit against the company in...
Disease expert resigns
Missoulian - He also played a major role in working with federal agencies dealing with the asbestosis lung disease disaster in Libby. Hundreds of people in the town have died and more than 1,000...
One Million for Meso
Phramalive.com - SANTA BARBARA, Calif., January 10, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (Meso Foundation) announced that it has awarded an additional $1 million to...
Cancer risk is higher in local area because of air pollution
Fontana Herald News - Joseph Catholic Church, Fontana, with funeral mass at 11 a.m. Graveside service followed at Green Acres Memorial Park in Bloomington. The family said that donations may be made...
Insurer to offer asbestos cover
News.com.au - NEW Bermuda-based insurer St George Re said on Wednesday it would begin operations as the first company dedicated solely to offering US companies protection against asbestos claims. St...
Insurer, backed by Berkshire, offers asbestos cover
Reuters - NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) - New Bermuda-based insurer St. George Re said on Wednesday it would begin operations as the first company dedicated solely to offering U.S. companies protection...
The Big Mo': How Senator Obama gained the momentum
The Independent - Mr Obama was its front man, going door-to-door, trying to get the city to remove asbestos from public housing, and getting a job database set up in the impoverished South Side. His...
State epidemiologist resigns
Billings Gazette - He also played a major role in working with federal agencies dealing with the asbestosis lung disease disaster in Libby. Hundreds of people in the town have died and more than...
High court hears arguments in Amanda Satterfield asbestos case
WBIR - The Tennessee Supreme Court considered the case of the death of Amanda Satterfield of Blount County. At issue is whether the case should go to trial. "Amanda was my daughter," said Doug...
State Enlists Less Scandal-Ridden Contractor to Finish Deutsche Bank ...
New York Observer - LVI is the largest remediation and facility services firm in the United States and has completed more than 15,000 abatement projects since 2000. In 2005 and 2006, LVI was ranked...
Baron & Budd, P.C., Welcomes Denyse Finn Clancy as the Law Firm's ...
Forbes - Clancy won an $8.2 million verdict before a Galveston jury on behalf of a retired pipefitter suffering from asbestos-related mesothelioma and his wife. "We are excited to have Denyse as a...
Asbestos Gone Today; Houses on Friday
The Ledger - HAINES CITY | An asbestos removal company will only have to tear down one wall of a known drug house today before the rest of the house can be demolished Friday morning. Workers for Air...
Environmental Consulting Services Market in the US Thriving as Public ...
Forbes - They employ a multi-disciplined staff of scientists, engineers, and other technicians with expertise in areas, such as air and water quality, asbestos contamination, remediation, and...
Michelin loses appeal against asbestos ruling
CNBC - RIOM, France (Thomson Financial) - An appeals court has confirmed French tyre maker Michelin's conviction for gross negligence in exposing three former workers to dangerous levels of...
Tersigni opposes appointment of trustee
Boston Globe - Founded by Loreto Tersigni in 2001, the Stamford, Conn.-based company advised asbestos creditors in major bankruptcy cases, including W.R. Grace & Co., Federal Mogul Corp., and USG...
A Stately Pleasure Dome: Cruising on the Zuiderdam
Cape Cod Today - Then eventually letting us get on board the Zuiderdam and head to the Lido deck to hang out while they got our bags to our room and did mysterious other nasty things to the rooms...
Site work is continuing on Union Station project
Goldsboro News-Argus - In the meantime, Newton said the building must be tested for asbestos before the next stage in the process occurs. "The next step in the process after we get those drawings...
Wild-card Judgements: Norv clears hurdle; Eli, Rivers inextricably ...
CBS Sportsline - Just a suggestion, but I'd pack the asbestos suits for Foxborough, guys. • Antonio Gates . He might be forced to sit out Sunday's game at Indianapolis because of a dislocated big...
Morphotek(R) Announces Initiation of MORAb-009 Phase II Study in First ...
PR Inside - The Phase II clinical trial is supported by safety data and clinical observations from a recently completed Phase I trial of MORAb-009 in patients with mesothelin-bearing tumors,...
Morphotek(R) Announces Initiation of MORAb-009 Phase II Study in First ...
PR Inside - The Phase II clinical trial is supported by safety data and clinical observations from a recently completed Phase I trial of MORAb-009 in patients with mesothelin-bearing tumors,...
Saturn to reveal hybrid SUV
Detroit Free Press - Asbestos claimants appeal reorganization A group representing "tens of thousands" of people who claim they were injured by asbestos in Dana Corp. products has appealed the...
Business briefs
Detroit News - Asbestos group appeals Dana bankruptcy plan NEW YORK -- A group representing "tens of thousands" of people who claim they were injured by asbestos in Dana Corp . products has appealed...
Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
ZDNet Blogs - This leaves them in the same sorry quandary faced in recent decades by asbestos manufacturers and tobacco companies, forced to bear a liability to former customers that they initially...
Witness appeal renewed by police
Bucks Free Press - He added that although there were no dangerous chemicals kept inside the building, there was asbestos in the structure. Fire crews from High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Aylesbury and...
Cape Annual Earnings Beat Estimates on Record Demand (Update2)
Bloomberg - The British services provider, whose clients include Exxon Mobil Corp. and Drax Group Plc, also carries out asbestos management for businesses in the U.K., Africa, Asia and the Middle...
Waits' words need music - and some proofreading
Seattle Times - Soon he would be rhyming "hustle" with "bus'll" and "asbestos" with "rest us," sharpening his eye for detail, refining his sense of rhythm as he began to work with real jazz...
Financiers, Fix Foreclosed Homes
BusinessWeek - Meanwhile, many of the foreclosed homes are in disrepair, laden with asbestos and lead-based materials. Left to the elements and vandals, they can quickly become curiosity magnets for...
Kemerovo Region
Kommersant - ... of non-ore economic minerals such as sand-gravel mix, building sand, clay shale for making expanded clay aggregate, building stone, diabase for stone casting, raw materials for rock...
Demolition of historic Bucky Dome a stain on KCS
Kansas City Star - So this fall the company filed for permits to remove asbestos and demolish the building. And by late November, when the historic preservationists learned of the company’s plans,...
OSHA, asbestos abatement classes offered
South Coast Today - NEW BEDFORD — Construction workers can improve their job prospects through two classes being offered by the Old Bedford Village Development Corp. The organization will hold sign...
Pure Energy Visions Q1 Loss Narrows - Quick Facts
RTT News - ... coordination for the materials handling arrangements for Tulsequah Chief Mine concentrates. Formerly Gordon acted as Marketing Manager for copper concentrate sales for Princeton...
Poster shows store that burned in '32 relocated to the Bracewell Block
Fosters Daily Democrat - Contractors started by tearing out the old asbestos in the basement and set to work removing all the debris that was stuck under the building. Fischer said they have since...
Grace trial to test asbestos claims
Boston Globe - PHILADELPHIA— W.R. Grace & Co. is getting ready to gamble the company on the decision of a lone bankruptcy judge who will take up a question that would otherwise be in the hands of an...
Nassau Bay development gathers steam
North Channel Sun - They're probably going to be starting asbestos mediation sometime in January," he said. Fred Griffin and his firm plan to demolish the existing office buildings, some of which...
Subsidy paves way for thalidomide trial
News.com.au - Alimta, a chemotherapy agent, was added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) yesterday, finally giving sufferers of the killer asbestos-related cancer access to cheap treatment....
Slovenian culture and Fontana vital to Vidergar
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - After his diagnosis in June of mesothelioma - a form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos - he fought as long and hard as he could...
Prostitution Bill on table at Holyrood
Edinburgh News - ... the Executive plans to bring in new child protection legislation stemming from the Bichard inquiry into the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and a new law to...
Vigil is tribute to asbestos victims
Rochedale Observer - He is now calling for a permanent memorial for Rochdale's asbestos victims, including Nellie Kershaw, whose death in 1924 was the first recorded case of asbestosis. The move was...
Firefighters in Bank Blaze Said to Have Ignored Order to Consult City ...
New York Times - Required inspections in the building, including tests of the standpipe, had not been done, and the stairwells had been sealed as part of efforts to remove asbestos. Mayor Michael R....
Steam pipe was being repaired when it burst
Boston Globe - The 14-inch steam pipe that burst and spewed asbestos in downtown Boston was being repaired when an expansion joint between two pipes apparently ruptured, according to a preliminary...