Most people who are diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer rarely live more than two years after their diagnosis. However, Phil Lake, a West Virginia native, has recently passed the eight-year mark of survival with the disease. Doctors said that the reason for his long survival rates stem from an early ...

Dana Corp. to pay $2 million in personal injury claim restitution
Dana Corp., a Toledo, Ohio based company, has agreed to pay $2 million in restitution to settle some 7,500 cases brought against the auto parts manufacturing firm. The settlement is part of a bankruptcy protection measure as Dana Cor...

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 ...