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The following year, Quebec's government announced a halt to asbestos mining [23] and the federal government announced that it would end its opposition to adding chrysotile asbestos to the list of hazardous substances under the international Rotterdam Convention.
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 ...
Asbestos (/ æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ə s, æ z-,-t ɒ s / ass-BES-təs, az-, -toss) [1] is a group of naturally occurring, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals.There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous crystals, each fibre (particulate with length substantially greater than width) [2] being composed of many microscopic "fibrils" that can be released into ...
Formerly on Proposition 65 list Substance CAS Registry Number † Date removed Bisphenol A (BPA) 80-05-7 April 11, 2013 Allyl chloride: 107-05-1 October 29, 1999 Phenyl glycidyl ether: 122-60-1 April 4, 2014 α-Methyl styrene: 98-83-9 April 4, 2014 tert-Amyl methyl ether: 994-05-8 December 13, 2013 n-Butyl glycidyl ether: 2426-08-6 April 4, 2014
The Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2015 (old bill number- H.R. 526, now Section 3 of H.R. 1927) is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Blake Farenthold that would require asbestos trusts in the United States to file quarterly reports about the payouts they make and personal information on the victims who receive them in a publicly ...
Spodden Valley asbestos controversy: 2004 United Kingdom Sydney Tar Ponds: hazardous waste Canada Syringe Tide: 1987-88 United States Techa River: radioactive contamination Russia Teckomatorp: 1970s Sweden Times Beach, Missouri: dioxin scare 1983 United States Tonoshō, Kagawa: industrial waste dump Japan Tui mine tailings dam New Zealand ...
Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2013; Long title: To amend title 11 of the United States Code to require the public disclosure by trusts established under section 524(g) of such title, of quarterly reports that contain detailed information regarding the receipt and disposition of claims for injuries based on exposure to asbestos; and for other purposes.
Asbestos bankruptcy trusts are trusts established by firms that have filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code to pay personal injury claims caused by exposure to asbestos. At least 56 such trusts were established from the mid-1970s to 2011.