The worst case of community asbestos exposure in the nation’s history took another turn this week as the new national healthcare legislation moved through the Senate.  The asbestos disaster we refer to is the vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana that operated from about 1920 through 1990.  The vermiculite ore from that mine was – and [...]

The Toronto Star is running a two-part series about the Canada’s continuing export of asbestos, despite the fact that asbestos products are effectively banned within the country’s borders.  India is the primary buyer for Canada’s asbestos, currently being exported at the rate of about 175,000 tons per year.  The story of asbestos use in India [...]

During these years of the asbestos litigation saga, there have been stories of every kind of workplace exposure that has led to an asbestos disease of some sort for the employee.  In Libby, Montana the story of the W.R. Grace mine and its asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore has exposed, perhaps for the first time, exactly how [...]

There is one asbestos mine left in North America, in the town of Thetford Mine located in Quebec.  Keeping it open has become a cause célèbre among some Canadian politicians, presumably because there are about 400 people employed there.  Ottawa, a Canadian province with no commercial asbestos mining in its territory, has reinforced its support [...]

A jury in Baltimore Circuit Court has found Scapa Dryers, Inc. liable in the asbestos-related mesothelioma and lung cancer of former paper worker Carl Saville. In the 1960s and 1970s, Saville was exposed to asbestos-containing dryer felts produced by Scapa as well as pipe, cement and block insulation installed by insulation contractor Wallace & Gale. [...]