"Mesothelioma treatment" - Deadly : 250 rescue workers 'trained in asbestos'

Deadly : 250 rescue workers 'trained in asbestos'
News.com.au - AT least 250 of New South Wales's elite emergency workers have been told they could die from exposure to lethal levels of asbestos during anti-terrorist training drills. The personnel at risk include members of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) unit

Asbestos-tainted town seeks aid
AZCentral.com - WASHINGTON - In one sense, Les Skramstad is almost jealous of his late neighbor in Libby, Mont. At least that man's death from cancerous mesothelioma came quickly, he said. Skramstad is dying of asbestosis, which feels like slow, constant suffocation

Asbestos fund bill far from fair, Ashville widow says
Daily Home Online - Its acronym is FAIR, Fairness In Asbestos Injury Resolution, but one St. Clair County woman who lost her husband to an asbestos disease contends it isn't fair at all. Deb Watson, a physical education teacher at Ashville Elementary, knows firsthand

Man pleads guilty to federal clean air act charges
Empire State News - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced Thursday that Gerald Lindquist, 56, of Amsterdam, NY, was sentenced in United States District Court in Syracuse, NY by Judge Howard Munson. In 2002 Lindquist pled guilty to a

Man Made Aids
Political Gateway - In 2006 the AIDS epidemic will be a quarter-century old. Officially starting in June 1981 as a mysterious and fatal disease exclusively found in several dozen young white gay men from New York City and Los Angeles, the disease has now killed 20