Military defense contractor Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) is facing a class-action lawsuit for burning toxic chemicals including asbestos in Iraq and Afghanistan, posing serious health threats to as many as 100,000 U.S. military.
The lawsuit combines 34 separate lawsuits against KBR for allegedly burning toxic waste in open-air pits including: “trucks, tires, lithium batteries, Styrofoam…petroleum-oil-lubricant [...]

A group of recent deaths of New York police and fire officers who took part in the emergency operation at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks has heightened fears that it could be the start of a delayed epidemic of cancer-related illness, according to the BBC.  In fairness, cancer deaths eight years after exposure to [...]

Exposure to asbestos is the No. 1 cause of workplace-related deaths for Quebec workers and amounts to about 60 per cent of all such fatalities this year, according to statistics gathered by Quebec’s workers compensation board.  These statistics are based on death certificates that relate the cause of death directly to workplace exposure, which is [...]

A Tennessee native who grew up in the DuPont company town of Old Hickory has sued the company and twenty other defendants over the loss of both his parents to an asbestos disease.  The Tennessean reports that Roger Neely has filed suit over allegations that both his parents developed mesothelioma cancer from asbestos exposure incurred [...]

A University of Maryland nursing professor was awarded $20 million in a case involving second-hand exposure to asbestos.  Jocelyn Farrar is the 57 year old teaching professional who has developed mesothelioma cancer, a disease for which the only known cause is asbestos.  Ms. Farr has undergone a partial pneumonectomy, or lung removal, in an [...]