The White Lung Association in the News
Australia:
Australia
Ends Asbestos Use -- by Laurie Kazan-Allen, January 2, 2004
Bermuda:
No
prosecution in Southside asbestos scandal -- by Stephen Breen, The
Royal Gazette, January 07. 2004
Botswana:
Government
rehabilitates abandoned mines -- The Daily News, 8 January,
2004
Brazil:
Brazil's Asbestos Victims Gasp for Justice --
the Dutch magazine Ode on asbestos, 20 October 2003
Your Money or Your Life -- interview with
activist Fernanda Giannasi by Al Jazeera's correspondant in Brazil about
asbestos
Canada:
Offensive
publicitaire prochrysotile an article in French on an offensive by
the ProChrysotile Movement to document "living and working with asbestos,"Nelson
Fecteau, La Tribune , 30 March 2005
Europe:
European Parliament Endorses Asbestos Seminar
-- Members of the European Parliament have recognised the work done in
Brussels in June, 2001 at the meeting of the European Asbestos Seminar
(EAS)
Canada v. France:
WTO Rules: The asbestos conspiracy -- by Patrick Herman and Annie
Thˇbaud-Mony, Le Monde diplomatique, July 2000
India:
Launch of BANI (Ban Asbestos Network India)
What's new at the Centre for Science and Environment
(CSE), New Delhi, India
Phillipines:
Clock
still ticking for victims of toxic waste -- Commentary by Ricardo
S. Malay, INQ7, January 7, 2004
South Africa:
Asbestos
victims continue their fight while multinationals duck and dive --
by Ronnie Morris, Business Report, January 8, 2004
South
African Manufacturer Bans Asbestos -- by Laurie Kazan-Allen, January
5, 2004
End of struggle for Cape Asbestos Victims --
Press Release - 13th March 2003
United Kingdom:
Firm
faces legal fight in waste dumping row -- by Chris Mooney, Edinburgh
Evening News, January 9, 2004
Salt
mine to become huge dump for toxic waste: Prescott gives go-ahead for
plan to avert disposal crisis as change in EU law shuts overground sites
-- by John Vidal, The Guardian Unlimited, January 8, 2004
Minister and
MP Consider Future of Ghost Ships -- by Paul Watson, The Scotsman,
January 7. 2004
Asbestos Ban Comes Into Force -- November
24, 1999
USA:
Senator Specter Breaks Promise to Mesothelioma
Patient and Research Community, MARF press release -- NEW!
Senate Judiciary Committee returns to Mark-Up on
May 11th: Proposed asbestos trust fund legislation will further penalize
victims of asbestos-caused diseases, ADAO press release.
Asbestos Victims Gain Ground in D.C. Senate Bill
852 (FAIR Act), Asbestos Trust Fund Legislation Breakthrough for asbestos
victims and their families, ADAO press release.
Asbestos
Justice -- Commentary, The New York Times, March 30, 2005
The Cruel Saga of Asbestos Disease -- Commentary
by Paul Brodeur, Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2005
President
Speaks with Women Small Business Owners on the Economy -- Remarks
by the President in a conversation on the economy with women small business
owners: "We need tort reform there; we need class action reform;
we need asbestos reform if we expect this economy to continue to grow."
U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, D.C., January 9, 2004.
Superfund
cuts Libby short -- The Billings Gazette, January 9, 2004
Weak
asbestos laws put profits over safety -- The Virginian-Pilot,
January 8, 2004
Asbestos
Litigation: Evidence Of Massive Corruption? -- The Atlantic,
December 31, 2003
Danger in the Attic: Millions of U.S. Homes
Have Asbestos-Tainted Insulation, but the Government Hasn't Warned the
Public -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 24, 2002
Control of Asbestos in Buildings: HSC to act to
reduce risks from asbestos in workplace buildings -- June 14, 2000
Will the asbestos companies ever learn?-- Letter
to the Baltimore Sun, March 27, 1999
White Lung Association. Wants Asbestos Museum--Wayne
Laufert Dundalk Eagle, Dundalk, MD, July 18, 1996
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