Federal prosecutors have initiated a trial against a mining company in Libby, Montana in response to thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths related to toxic asbestos exposure. Prosecutors began the trial in late February 2009 in a Missoula courthouse, alleging…

Late last month, a New York City jury awarded $9 million to mesothelioma cancer victims and their wives for their wrongful asbestos exposure.

The cases are being viewed as ground-breaking mesothelioma cancer cases since the verdicts were handed down against companies…

An oil refinery in Westville, New Jersey was recently fined $305,000 for violating 34 different OSHA regulations. Many of the violations concerned asbestos and the failure by the refinery’s owners, Sunoco Inc., to:

• determine the presence, location and quality of asbestos…

Robert “Bobby” Hilt of Vallejo, California will receive a settlement in his mesothelioma lawsuit that adds up to $7.5 million. His trial ended in late December with the last of 11 defendants agreeing to settle out of court. Hilt, 64,…

Although millions of Americans have developed mesothelioma, asbestosis and other diseases from being exposed to asbestos, no one knows exactly how asbestos produces these illnesses. Scientists at Ohio State University are now using atomic force microscopy to examine how a…

In early December, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality levied a $15,000 fine against the two contracting businesses that performed unsafe asbestos removal and abatement projects at the Sun Country Mobile Home Park in Bend, a community of about 81,000…

A 553-acre site containing an old railroad yard, fields and lagoons in Billerica, Massachusetts — a small town about 22 miles northwest of Boston — was listed as a Superfund cleanup site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1984.…

Zonolite insulation maker W.R. Grace & Co. recently agreed to a huge payment plan to settle the class action launched against it by thousands of people who have been harmed by asbestos. Grace, widely known as the operator of the…

The Vermont Attorney General’s office is estimating the cost of cleaning up the closed Belvidere Mountain asbestos mine at $210 to $250 million. The Lowell/Eden mine had operated for more than 100 years before it closed, and the remaining piles…

The Vermont Commissioner of Health, Dr. Wendy Davis, spoke about recent findings by the state’s Department of Health regarding the Belvidere Mountain asbestos mine in Lowell and Eden. The study found significantly increased risks of asbestos related diseases among the people…