U.S. Imports for Consumption from January - August 2018 Sign and Share the Petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Urging Them to Ban Asbestos Now Without Loopholes or Exemptions ADAO and EWG Findings: Asbestos Imports Surge as Trump White House Moves to Keep Deadly Carcinogen Legal New Government Data: Asbestos Imports Rise 2,000 Percent [...]
Posted on October 22, 2018 Health Literacy Month Landing Page October 8th - Part One: Prevent Asbestos Exposure October 15th - Part Two: Recognize High Risk Occupations October 22nd - Part Three: Understand the Warning Symptoms for Asbestos-Caused Diseases October 29th - Part Four: Finding a Center of Excellence for Treatment - coming soon! Important Notice: ADAO does not make medical [...]
Posted on October 18, 2018 This week the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued its Fall 2018 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Action, which is the OMB’s regular attempt to put all the new and final rules proposed by Federal Regulatory Agencies into one place for public viewing. Within the agenda are 150 [...]
Posted on October 17, 2018 In 2011, Canada successfully closed the last of its asbestos mines. In 2016, it was announced that the Canadian Government would begin to draft a new asbestos ban that would prohibit the ‘manufacture, use, import, and export’ of asbestos-containing products by 2018. Today, Canada takes its next critical step forward [...]
Posted on October 15, 2018 Once again, the Russian International Trade Union Alliance for Chrysotile and their Kazakhstani allies hosted an industry conference promoting the so-called safe use of chrysotile asbestos. Under the guise of the International Trade Union Conference on Chrysotile Asbestos and Safety, they desperately attempted to discuss workplace safety. As they boldly shared, [...]