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Following the deadly wildfire that tore through the historic Hawaii town of Lahaina in August 2023, killing more than 100 people and destroying more than 2,000 buildings, it took the EPA more than ...
The Los Angeles Fire Department's budget was cut by $17.6 million, about 2%, this fiscal year. ... between the 2024-25 fiscal year and the 2023-24 fiscal year, according to city budget documents ...
As of 2023, the conference has grown to more than 1,500 attendees from 53 countries and 45 U.S. states. [15] The Net Zero Conference has previously been held at the LEED Gold certified Los Angeles Convention Center, [16] but will be held at the LEED certified Anaheim Convention Center in 2024.
Asbestos litigation is the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history, involving more than 8,000 defendants and 700,000 claimants. [1] By the early 1990s, "more than half of the 25 largest asbestos manufacturers in the US, including Amatex, Carey-Canada, Celotex, Eagle-Picher, Forty-Eight Insulations, Manville Corporation, National Gypsum, Standard Insulation, Unarco, and UNR Industries ...
The National Asbestos Profile of India made in cooperation by Peoples Training and Research Centre, Vadodara, Occupational & Environmental Health Network of India, New Delhi and Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong is the first such attempt and resource for identifying total asbestos usage in India. [39]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a rule that would ban using and importing cancer-causing asbestos, a material still used in some vehicles and in ...
On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...
In the United States, asbestos litigation is the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history, involving more than 8,400 defendants and 730,000 claimants as of 2002 according to the RAND Corporation, [83] and at least one defendant reported claim counts in excess of $800,000 in 2006. [84]