Advocacy Archives - Page 9 of 17 - ADAO - Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

Press Release: ADAO Releases Report Detailing Chlor-Alkali Industry’s Impact on Asbestos Imports and Use in America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 27, 2019 ADAO Releases Report Detailing Chlor-Alkali Industry’s Impact on Asbestos Imports and Use in America The report reveals that the chlor-alkali industry, the only remaining industry to import raw asbestos in the United States, now receives its asbestos solely from Russia. The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the largest nonprofit [...]

admin2019-09-01T20:10:15-07:00August 27th, 2019|

EWG Press Release: White House Aides Evacuate Over Asbestos Risks as Administration Moves To Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal

Posted on August 22, 2019 White House Aides Evacuate Over Asbestos Risks as Administration Moves To Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal WASHINGTON=Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway and other senior White House aides have vacated their West Wing offices while asbestos is removed – even as the Trump administration is manipulating a federal chemical safety law to keep [...]

admin2022-12-07T13:57:55-08:00August 22nd, 2019|

Press Release: Trump White House Moves to Protect Themselves from Legacy Asbestos as Trump EPA Avoids Protecting Americans

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2019 Sign and Share the Petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Urging Them to Ban Asbestos Now Without Loopholes or Exemptions Trump White House Moves to Protect Themselves from Legacy Asbestos as Trump EPA Avoids Protecting Americans White House to spend $250,000 to remove legacy asbestos as Trump EPA [...]

admin2022-08-09T12:26:49-07:00August 21st, 2019|

NEJM: “A Most Reckless Proposal — A Plan to Continue Asbestos Use in the United States” by Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Richard Lemen, Ph.D

NEJM: "A Most Reckless Proposal — A Plan to Continue Asbestos Use in the United States" by Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Richard Lemen, Ph.D Posted on July 31, 2019 Support for a federal ban of asbestos is growing in the United States. Though the majority of Americans believe that the fiber has already been [...]

admin2019-08-05T13:23:56-07:00July 31st, 2019|

Why Federal Ban Asbestos Legislation is the Only Way to Stop Imports and Use || How State by State Ban Bills Fail

Posted on July 31, 2019 People are dying from asbestos-related illness, and there is no federal ban to stop it. Since 1989, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to ban the import and use of asbestos—a known carcinogen—in the United States, over one million people have died. America needs a federal ban on imports, [...]

admin2019-08-05T14:48:37-07:00July 31st, 2019|