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Monday, July 19th, 2010
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), today released a statement from Linda Reinstein, CEO and Co-Founder, regarding the California proposed legislation to drop the state rock, serpentine.
“In a united call for compassionate action, The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) fully supports the Drop the Rock campaign to remove the official California State rock, Serpentine, which is the host rock for asbestos. The tragic irony of this designation is that asbestos exposure can cause numerous respiratory diseases and cancers including lung cancer and mesothelioma. The legislation behind the movement, SB 624, is about abolishing a symbol that conveys a very dangerous legacy. In 1965, Serpentine was designated as the state rock of California to promote the then lucrative asbestos mining industry, an industry that has since been closed down” said Reinstein.
The World Health Organization, The Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Surgeon General agree: all forms of asbestos are carcinogenic and there is no safe level of asbestos exposure. According to the State of California Department of Conservation, ‘Chrysotile often occurs as fibrous veinlets in serpentine. Chrysotile in fibrous form is the most common type of asbestos…serpentine often contains some asbestos, and exposure to asbestos fibers have potential human-health consequences…’
SB 624 enjoys widespread bipartisan support. It unanimously passed the Manhattan Beach City Council, Californian State Senate and California Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and is supported by such organizations as the Children’s Hospital of L.A.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Associated Press reports that geologists and industry advocates are pushing California lawmakers to keep serpentine as the official rock of California. Their arguments for keeping the rock: the asbestos often found in serpentine is not as dangerous as other types of asbestos and trial lawyers will create new claims if serpentine is declassified.
The health concerns regarding asbestos are well documented. The World Health Organization, among numerous health organizations, has found that all types of asbestos, including chrysotile – the kind found in serpentine, are hazardous to humans. No safe level of asbestos exposure has been identified. Indeed, even lower level exposures to asbestos, including chrysotile, can cause the development of mesothelioma. For these reasons, over 50 nations world-wide have banned the mining and use of all forms of asbestos. There is no real debate in the scientific world about whether chrysotile or any other forms of asbestos are toxic.
As for new litigation that will be caused by stripping the rock of its official title – that’s a scare tactic. As Ben DuBose stated in today’s Associated Press report, removing serpentine as the California state rock will not result in any new types of litigation. The reason – it’s not the rock itself but the asbestos that’s commonly contained in the rock that poses the hazard.
The reason California needs to drop the rock – it’s really out of respect to all of the asbestos cancer victims, including several thousand in California. The proposed law is the decent thing to do since the asbestos industry pressured the California legislature to give serpentine its special status in the first place.
For more information, see our previous post on whether to drop the rock.
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Two Kansas City, Missouri men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of improperly handling asbestos. The allegations stem from April 2001 to July 2006, during which time the men had been illegally removing and disposing of the asbestos-contaminated materials.
The grand jury found that the men, violated the federal Clean Air Act, and are subject to sentences of up to seven years in prison, and fines of up to $500,000 if convicted.
The federal charges allege the two developers improperly removed and disposed of the asbestos while working on the Citadel Plaza project.
Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous material most commonly exploited for its fire retardant properties. When asbestos is disturbed, the toxic material becomes airborne–posing a serious to health threat to those exposed.
Asbestos exposure can lead to the development of asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung.
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Serpentine - California State Rock
The Los Angeles Times reports a California state senator has introduced a bill to decertify the California state rock. A waste of time you say? Not in this case. Serpentine, the official rock of California, is asbestos containing.
At one time at least three asbestos mines were operated in California: The Altas Mine, The Johns-Manville Coalinga mine and the Union Carbide Calidria mine. During the 1960s, at the height of California asbestos mining, the legislature named Serpentine as the Golden State’s official rock.
Times have changed. Asbestos has claimed thousands of American lives.
While the California mines may be closed, the dangers remain. Areas around the old mines have been designated as Superfund sites and the Bureau of Land Management closed a 48 square mile area of the Diablo Mountain Range which encompasses the old Atlas Mine north of Coalinga. An EPA study found dangerous levels of asbestos dust were being stirred up by weekend motorcycles and ATVs.
Against this backdrop, asbestos victim advocacy groups, including the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization have sponsored a petition drive, called Swap the Rock, aimed at pressuring lawmakers to dump the official state rock.
Thousands of Californians and other Americans have been killed by asbestos – a mineral which still poses a threat today. Changing the state rock designation is the right thing to do.
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Talcum powder – you’ve probably sprinkled it on you or your children during your life. What you probably didn’t know is that the comfort associated with talcum powder, until recent years, was potentially toxic.
Asbestos – in addition to being a staple of thousands of construction materials, was also an ingredient in everyday consumer products such as modeling clay, dish towels, and talc products.
Talc or talcum powder is mined from talc deposits which can be contaminated with asbestos. Indeed, New York Times articles in the 1970s identified a number of talcum powders which contained asbestos in concentrations of 2 to 20%. At about the same time, a leading medical journal, The Lancet, reported on the potential harmful effects of talc.
Asbestos fibers, when inhaled, can lead to a variety of diseases including mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung, as well as lung cancer.
Talc has also been associated in some medical studies to the development of ovarian cancer although the link between talc and this form of cancer is not conclusive. Products such as baby powder, feminine hygiene products and even women’s cosmetics contain talc.
In recent years, most major brands of baby powder are now manufactured with corn starch instead of talc.
See Green Living article for a home-made, cornstarch based baby powder recipe.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Canadian Open Pit Asbestos Mine
In the face of international criticism, Quebec, Canada is poised to approve a $58 million loan guarantee to help continue the province’s ailing and controversial asbestos industry.
The proposed underground expansion of the Jeffrey Mine in the town of Asbestos, Quebec, on hold since 2002 because of a lack of funds, will move forward if union workers approve a five-year contract and if Quebec Premier Jean Charest’s cabinet OKs the loan guarantee.
The plan to increase production at the Quebec asbestos mine continues despite decades old knowledge of the mineral’s threat to human health. Since at least the 1950s, the link between lung cancer and asbestos has been known by science and industry. Mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung, was definitively linked to asbestos exposure by 1960.
More recently, the World Health Organization(WHO) has stated that all forms of asbestos have been shown to be deadly and that safe use of asbestos is impossible. Earlier this year, scientists from 28 nations around the world publicly appealed in an open letter to the Premier of Quebec to stop exporting asbestos to the developing word.
Despite mounting international scorn, and decades of science, the Quebec asbestos loan appears to be motivated by what else – money. The union mine workers stand to share in the profits of the 5 year mine expansion program in the government’s latest attempt to prop up a wider segment of the economy – the weakened Canadian mining industry.
Tragically, not only will the Canadian mine workers’ health be placed at risk, but Canada’s continued exporting of asbestos will harm new generations of unprotected workers in developing countries such as India, Mexico, and Brazil (see India’s 21st Century Asbestos Epidemic) where asbestos is still used in building construction materials. To learn more and to help stop the Canadian asbestos mines see www.bacanada.org
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Texas Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys for 37 years, was imploded on Sunday, April 11th by the City of Irving to make way for new highway and light rail construction through the Dallas suburb. Like most buildings of its era, Texas Stadium was constructed with asbestos-containing materials. In fact, the presence of asbestos delayed the implosion date and required asbestos abatement teams to properly dispose of asbestos containing materials.
Built in 1971, Texas Stadium was a state-of-the-art facility that set the standard for future NFL stadiums. Unfortunately, the stadium was also built near the peak years that asbestos was used as an ingredient in thousands of construction products. Like other buildings of its time, asbestos was present throughout the stadium, including: glue to hold down carpets, mirrors and tile, as well as drywall materials such as joint compound and texture material on its block walls.
Asbestos fibers, when made airborne from the cutting, sanding or chipping apart of construction products, are a deadly carcinogen capable of causing malignant mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung as well as lung cancer and a series of other diseases.
Federal, state and local environmental standards required that asbestos had to be removed from the entire stadium before the implosion could take place. Abatement crews equipped with special respirators and special suits removed the asbestos within tented areas and purified the air. All asbestos-containing materials were then double-bagged and moved to a regulated landfill. Before the implosion, air samples were also taken to confirm that the air readings no longer indicated the presence of asbestos above background levels.
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
The widow of football hall of famer , actor and sportscaster, Merlin Olsen, has amended his lawsuit and been given approval by the trial court to move forward with the claims filed in Los Angeles against NBC Studios, 20th Century Fox as well as numerous other manufacturers and suppliers of asbestos containing construction materials.
Olsen died on March 10th from malignant mesothelioma – a rare cancer of the lining of the lung caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers. Each year 2,500 to 3,000 Americans continue to develop mesothelioma from decades old asbestos exposures.
Prior to his death, Olsen and his wife Susan filed suit against numerous asbestos defendants alleging asbestos exposures both as a young man in construction settings as well as in later years while on set for various television productions.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
In spite of the now well-known health hazards of asbestos, including mesothelioma and lung cancer, the Canadian government continues to mine asbestos because of the economic incentive of selling the deadly fiber to developing countries. Canada is the second-largest exporter of the mineral after Russia. The world’s largest open pit asbestos mine continues to be operated to this day in the Canadian province of Quebec.
What’s more, unlike countries in the European Union, as well as Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, Canada has not banned asbestos. Rather, the Canadian federal government actively promotes its use globally. In 2008 Canadian asbestos exports exceeded $92 million in sales – all to developing countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and India.
The World Health Organization has labeled all types of asbestos, including chrysotile, as carcinogenic. It is banned in many developed countries, including New Zealand, Australia and all European Union countries.
The Canadian government has actively fought to keep asbestos off a U.N.-sponsored list of dangerous substances. If included on the list, called the Rotterdam Convention, any country looking to import asbestos would be informed of all the potential risks and would have to agree in advance to accept any shipments.
Julia Langer, director of the global threats program at the World Wildlife Fund in Canada, one of the groups pressuring the United Nations to restrict the export of asbestos, said the move was despicable. Including asbestos on the list “could have saved a lot of lives,” she said.
In the most recent update to the Rotterdam Convention’s Prior Informed Consent list in October 2008, chrysotile was again left off after India, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Philippines objected. To be added to the list, consensus must be reached.
Quebec’s asbestos industry has moved up a notch with Premier Jean Charest’s trade mission to India, one of the biggest importers of Canadian asbestos.
Over 100 scientists from 28 countries have recently authored a joint letter to Quebec Premier Jean Charest calling for a ban on Quebec’s export of asbestos to the developing world
The industrial and medical communities have known for decades that asbestos causes lung cancer and mesothelioma in humans. The fact the Canadian government continues to mine and export this deadly substance to developing countries is appalling. New generations of unprotected workers in developing countries will develop cancer as a result of Canada’s actions. To learn more and to help stop the Canadian asbestos mines see www.bacanada.org
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