Despite the fact that 45 countries around the world have banned the use of asbestos and the U.S. Senate recently passed legislation that may eventually do the same, asbestos use in India is on the rise, says an article posted on the Indian site, countercurrents.org.
According to the article, countr...

The mayor of Thetford Mines, Quebec (Canada) adamantly denies that his city has an alarming asbestos problem, dismissing a recent study as faulty and too small to determine true results.
According to a CanWest News Service article, Luc Berthold, who has been Thetford Mines mayor for just a year,...

A ship containing more than was 500 tons of asbestos was sunk in the middle of a whale sanctuary, say angered residents of the pristine Cook Islands in the South Pacific.
According to a New Zealand television report, locals say the ship and all its contents was sunk just off the coast of Rarotonga ...

After 30 years of silence, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) announced that a resolution calling for the ban on the export of asbestos to Third World countries will be discussed at their next congress executive council meeting and, ultimately, it will be debated at the CLC convention.
The ban of a...

An old asbestos-laden ship that has been sitting off Indias western Alang coast for several months is still caught in the middle of a ship-breaking controversy.
According to an Agence France-Presse article, last month Indias Supreme Court had given permission to the owners of the Blue Lady...