Posted on March 5, 2021 Each year, ADAO hosts our Annual Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference (APPC). We are delighted to announce that we have broken each session of our 2019 Conference into Youtube playlists, which can now be found below. We hope you watch, share, and learn! Together we will ban asbestos, and make [...]
Posted on March 9, 2021 ADAO’s vision is to eliminate all asbestos-related diseases, including mesothelioma. We are a round-the-clock organization committed to three initiatives: education, advocacy, and community. As an independent nonprofit, we rely entirely on the goodwill of our community to maintain and expand these efforts. The only two ways to end asbestos-caused diseases [...]
Posted on March 2, 2021 Robert M. Sussman, JD, is the principal in Sussman and Associates, a consulting firm that offers advice on energy and environmental policy issues to clients in the non-profit and private sectors. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law [...]
Registration Posted on March 1, 2021 On March 24 at 2:00 pm ET, ADAO will host our eighth Zoom conversation to discuss the history of asbestos, prevention, policy, and ADAO’s legal and legislative actions and outcomes. Experts with decades of asbestos knowledge and experience are: Barry Castleman, ScD Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD Richard Lemen, [...]
Posted on February 28, 2021 On February 26, ADAO and its co-plaintiffs filed a brief opposing the February 2 motion of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse Judge Edward Chen’s Dec. 22 landmark ruling that the Agency must add asbestos to its Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) [...]