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  2. Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act - Wikipedia

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    The Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) is a US federal law enacted by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. [1] It required the EPA to create regulations regarding local educational agencies inspection of school buildings for asbestos-containing building material, prepare asbestos management plans, and perform asbestos response actions to ...

  3. Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia

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    The import, shipment, supply of, and use of all forms of asbestos is banned in Hong Kong under the Air Pollution Control Ordinance (Cap. 311). [28] Before the 1980s, use of the material was common in construction, manufacturing, and shipping. The government banned the use of most asbestos products in public areas in 1978. [29]

  4. Asbestos and the law (United States) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Asbestos in schools: what you need to know

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    All asbestos should be removed from all schools. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  6. EPA to ban last form of asbestos used in US - AOL

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    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 some industrial ...

  7. Parks, schools shut in California after asbestos found in ...

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    Parks and schools were closed Thursday in a Southern California city after officials found asbestos in the charred debris of an historic World War II-era blimp hangar. The city of Tustin closed at ...

  8. Health impact of asbestos - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, asbestos is not presently banned, [53] though its use has declined since the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Products containing asbestos are regulated by the Asbestos Products Regulation (SOR 2007/260). [54] On December 16, 2016, parliament stated that as of 2018, all use of asbestos will be totally banned.

  9. EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades ...

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    The EPA banned asbestos in 1989, but the rule was largely overturned by a 1991 Court of Appeals decision that weakened the EPA’s authority under TSCA to address risks to human health from ...