Posted on July 1, 2019 Almost a year to the day that Scott Pruitt announced his resignation as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Agency is facing two new major controversies. Bill Wehrum, who led the EPA’s air quality office and helped spearhead the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda, will step down from his [...]
Posted on June 28, 2019 Asbestos continues to kill, and the U.S. government is sitting idly by, while its citizens are dying by the thousands. America needs a federal ban on imports, use, and distribution of all forms of asbestos and contaminated products. That is what the bicameral Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act (ARBAN) [...]
Posted on June 26, 2019 On June 28 and 29, the leaders of the G20 will be gathering in Osaka, Japan for the annual G20 forum, the world’s preeminent economic conference. The purpose of the summit, which is the culmination of a yearlong series of meetings, is to gather the world’s key economic players to [...]
VIDEO: New ADAO Video || "The Ban Asbestos Legislative Movement: From Our Homes to The Hill" Posted on June 14, 2019 Every day, 100 Americans die from preventable asbestos-caused diseases, yet imports and use continue. Shockingly, 750 metric tons were imported in 2018 for the chlor-alkali industry’s use alone. ADAO’s newest advocacy video tells [...]
Posted on June 11, 2019 La Organización de concientización sobre la enfermedad del asbesto (ADAO), por sus siglas en inglés) envía nuestras más sinceras felicitaciones a los dedicados legisladores, sindicalistas y activistas colombianos por la aprobación del "Proyecto de Ley Ana Cecilia Niño" para prohibir la producción, el uso industrial y el comercio de asbesto. [...]