Like asbestos, PFAS were prized for industrial utility but are now linked to long-term, latent health risks. This complicates ...

Gov. JB Pritzker should sign a bill that permits a person filing a case in an Illinois court to include out-of-state ...

Analysis A Dose of Reality for the NYC Asbestos Litigation The opinions in 'Juni' present a sea change in the presentation of evidence on the issue of causation in New York asbestos cases.

The health dangers of asbestos were already well known, but it took a David and Goliath legal battle to hold the mining ...

EPA officials pushed back on this criticism, saying that the chemical law passed in 2016 requires them to go through a risk evaluation process before they completely ban chemicals like asbestos.

The 2016 law authorized new rules for tens of thousands of toxic chemicals found in everyday products, including substances such as asbestos and trichloroethylene that for decades have been known ...

Chrysotile asbestos is found in products such as brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the ...

Multiple States’ Attorneys General and asbestos advocacy groups are suing EPA in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California[1].

Asbestos Removal Technologies Inc. staff work on asbestos abatement in Howell, Michigan, Oct. 18, 2017. The EPA announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos that is still used in some chlorine bleach ...

On March 18, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a ban on the last form of ban on asbestos used in the United States. This carcinogen kills upwards of 40,000 Americans annually ...

In an article with the Widener Law Journal titled “Clearing up the False Premises Underlying the Push for Asbestos Trust ‘Transparency,’” attorneys Bruce Mattock and Jason Shipp, of the ...

It’s a lifesaving law, but many say it’s still a pipe dream. Public health officials say the long-awaited addition of asbestos to the government’s recently released list of most dangerous ...