ADAO Estimates Asbestos-Caused Lung Cancer Claims More than 5,000 Lives Every Year Washington, DC … November 1, 2010 --- The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the largest U.S. organization serving as the voice of asbestos victims, today announced its support of November as National Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer is one of the leading [...]
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by Carley Dryden (Updated: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:20 PM PDT) Linda Reinstein, pictured next to a family portrait, has fought for the last two years to get a resolution passed that would repeal serpentine as the state rock. Serpentine contains asbestos, a carcinogen that led to her husband’s death from mesothelioma in 2006. (photo [...]
Contacts: Jon Christensen, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, 650-759-6534, jonchristensen@stanford.edu Linda Reinstein, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), c/o ADAOMedia, Doug Larkin, 202-391-1546, media@AsbestosDiseaseAwareness.org Garry Hayes, Modesto Junior College, 209-575-6294, hayesg@yosemite.edu Opponents seek common ground over California state rock The California legislature is currently considering a bill to take the official title [...]
This letter to the editor was published in the LA Times Opinion section on August 2. Symbolism of the state rock Re "Don't fear this rock," Opinion, July 27 As a native Californian and mesothelioma widow, I find David Ropeik's Op-Ed to have misrepresented the controversy surrounding SB 624. Delisting serpentine as our official state [...]