The EPA is taking an active role in developing extending existing regulatory frameworks for potentially toxic manufacturing materials to nanotechnology.  The Agency wants to ensure that manufacturers of carbon nanotubes meet their Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) obligations in registering new molecular formulations of carbon nanotubes and other nanotechnology building blocks.
The overriding concern on the [...]

Vermont has a first class asbestos carcass on its hands in the form of the three former asbestos mines on Belvidere Mountain near Lowell, VT.  The site is over 2,500 acres when former mine real estate is combined with the piles of discarded rubble, collecting ponds and infrastructure surrounding the site.  The instances of asbestos [...]

In 2009 the Scottish Parliament passed the “2009 Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) (Scotland) Act.”  The law holds in part, that people suffering from non-malignant pleural plaques caused by asbestos are entitled to liability compensation.  Pleural plaques are benign calcified growths that develop on the lining of the chest cavity and the lungs, often as the result [...]

Australia has its own history of asbestos mining and manufacturing that can rival that of the United States.  It also has a history of asbestos exposure and resultant illness that at the moment, surpasses the level of illness in the United States.  The chief corporate player in the story is the James Hardie Corporation, a [...]

The EPA has gotten more aggressive about industrial contamination in general and about asbestos exposure in particular over the past year.  In Pennsylvania, it has listed the “Borit” site as a contamination site in need of quick remediation.
The Borit Asbestos site was used to dispose of asbestos-containing material which came from a nearby asbestos manufacturing [...]