“What the Merchants of Death Won’t Tell You: The Irrefutable Facts about Asbestos” an ADAO PSA Posted on May 30, 2019 How many Americans think asbestos has already been banned? Between misleading reports about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent significant new use rule (SNUR) and decades of industry propaganda, the number may be higher [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2019 PRESIDENT OF ASBESTOS DISEASE AWARENESS ORGANIZATION MEETS WITH EPA OFFICIAL TO DISCUSS EPA’S FLAWED ASBESTOS EVALUATION PROCESS Delivers Letter from 26 Scientists in Support of EPA Career Staff Whose Expertise was Ignored at the Risk of Public Health, per internal emails provided to the New York Times Washington, DC––Linda [...]
Thursday, May 23, 2019 Dr. Peter Salovey President of Yale University Dear Dr. Salovey, We are writing to once again urge Yale to rescind its 1996 honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree awarded to Stephan Schmidheiny, owner of the global Eternit enterprise, in 1996. Yale was clearly conned by this asbestos billionaire in his rebranding [...]
Posted on May 16, 2019 Next week, ADAO will be attending the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) 2019 AIHce EXP Conference and Exposition. The conference, which will be held in Minneapolis, MN, on May 20-22, brings together public health groups and advocates in order to advance worker health and safety. The event will feature [...]
Posted on May 15, 2019 Thursday, May 16, will be an important milestone in our efforts to make sure that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducts a comprehensive, health-protective evaluation on the risks of asbestos under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). On the 16th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [...]