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Asbestos-related disease

Tony Garfalo, a former OxyChem worker.

They inhaled asbestos for decades on the job.

Now, workers break their silence

NPR

October 20, 2022    5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/10/20/
1129999511/asbestos-ban-us-workers-cancer-risk

Photograph: Rich-Joseph Facun

for ProPublica.

Photo cropped by Anglonautes.

Labor

The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos.

These Workers Are Paying the Price.

by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi,

photography by Rich-Joseph Facun,

graphics by Haisam Hussein

ProPublica

Oct. 20, 2022    5 a.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-niagara-falls

asbestos        USA

2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/
1239299448/the-u-s-bans-most-common-form-of-asbestos-
after-decades-of-pushback-from-industr

2023

https://www.propublica.org/article/
epa-opens-new-public-comment-proposed-asbestos-ban - March 24, 2023

2022

https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-osha-apha  - December 9, 2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/07/
1141020583/workers-asbestos-exposure-health-risks

https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-plant-mcintosh-alabama-olin - December 7, 2022

https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-ban-lawmakers-advocates-congress - October 27, 2022

https://www.propublica.org/article/
lawsuits-say-oxychem-released-asbestos-north-tonawanda - October 25, 2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/10/20/
1129999511/asbestos-ban-us-workers-cancer-risk

https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-niagara-falls - October 20, 2022

2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/11/
914064239/covid-19-stalks-
a-montana-town-already-grappling-with-asbestos-disease

Ilustration: Matt Kenyon

Enter the scan van

As insurers try once again

to deny liability for asbestos-related lawsuits,

they are braced for an avalanche of claims prompted

by US-style mobile screening.

Jon Robins reports

The Guardian

Tuesday July 19, 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/19/
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