Posted on July 1, 2019 Since 2008, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) has held and/or participated in 13 Congressional Staff Briefings. Every year, we have used this immense opportunity to do one thing: give space for experts to share their work with U.S. lawmakers. Primarily focused on asbestos exposure prevention, we have brought nearly [...]
Posted on July 1, 2019 Almost a year to the day that Scott Pruitt announced his resignation as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Agency is facing two new major controversies. Bill Wehrum, who led the EPA’s air quality office and helped spearhead the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda, will step down from his [...]
Posted on June 28, 2019 Asbestos continues to kill, and the U.S. government is sitting idly by, while its citizens are dying by the thousands. America needs a federal ban on imports, use, and distribution of all forms of asbestos and contaminated products. That is what the bicameral Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act (ARBAN) [...]
Posted on June 26, 2019 On June 28 and 29, the leaders of the G20 will be gathering in Osaka, Japan for the annual G20 forum, the world’s preeminent economic conference. The purpose of the summit, which is the culmination of a yearlong series of meetings, is to gather the world’s key economic players to [...]
Posted on June 25, 2019 When we use makeup, we don’t think twice. Kids play dress-up with it, our teens turn to it as a rite of passage, and as adults make it part of our daily routines. We don’t bat a mascara-covered eyelash. But we should. Contaminated cosmetic products put us at risk for [...]