What is Asbestos and Why is it Bad for Our Health? April 2nd By Richard Lemen PhD, MSPH, Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS (Ret.) & Rear Admiral (Ret.) Asbestos is a commercial term referring to a group of naturally-occurring fibrous minerals. Asbestos has remarkable durability and resistance to heat, properties conferring value in a wide range [...]
Asbestos: Cover Up of a Century April 3rd By Kenneth A. Cook Co-founder and President, Environmental Working Group "Thousands of innocent people die while governments do nothing to prevent it. In Darfur it’s called genocide. In the case of asbestos-related deaths in the United States, it’s just a statistic.Ten thousand Americans lose their lives every [...]
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Planet Toys Inc, facing a potential class action lawsuit over its "CSI" fingerprint kits, has filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in New York. In its bankruptcy petition filed on Wednesday, New York- based Planet Toys listed assets in the range of $1 million to $10 million and liabilities in the range of $10 million [...]
A California asbestos awareness group sued CBS Corp, a toy maker and several retailers on Friday, claiming they sold toy crime-scene kits based on the hit CBS series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" that contained the cancer-causing substance. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that laboratory tests revealed the fingerprint dusting powder in [...]