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From Success to Failure. Five Things You Need to Know about EPA’s TSCA Implementation Asbestos Failures that Impact You
Posted on June 22, 2020 From success to failure. On June 22, 2016, President Barack Obama signed the The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (“LCSA”) into action. This was a [...]
Remembering Professor Eula Bingham for Her Outstanding Occupational Safety and Health Work
NY Times: Eula Bingham, Champion of Worker Safety, Dies at 90 Posted on June 15, 2020 It is with great sadness in our hearts that the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) announces the passing of [...]
ADAO Joins More Than 100 Organizations in Opposing Nancy Beck’s Presidential Nomination as Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Here’s Why
Coalition letter opposing Nancy Beck Posted on Monday, June 15, 2020 On June 16, 2020 the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a nomination hearing to consider five presidential nominations for [...]
Press Release: ADAO Applauds the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) Rigorous Review of EPA’s Narrow Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2020 CONTACT: courtney@upshiftstrategies.com Washington, D.C. —“The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) applauds the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) for its rigorous review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]
ADAO Statement: “EPA’s Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos is Under Intense Scrutiny by the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) and Public” by Linda Reinstein
Posted on June 10, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Linda Reinstein, president and co-founder of The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), issued the following statement in response to EPA’s Dangerously Narrow Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos. [...]
Linda Reinstein, ADAO Cofounder, Oral Remarks Regarding the EPA’s Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos
Posted on June 8, 2020 I’m Linda Reinstein, the cofounder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and a mesothelioma widow. ADAO, an independent nonprofit, is the only national organization dedicated to preventing asbestos exposure [...]
Robert Sussman, ADAO Counsel, Statement Regarding the EPA’s Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos
Posted on June 8, 2020 STATEMENT OF BOB SUSSMAN ON EPA ASBESTOS RISK EVALUATION My name is Bob Sussman. I’m counsel to the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and was a senior EPA official in [...]
EPA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) begins a four-day public meeting focused on the Draft Risk Evaluation on Asbestos on June 8
Posted on June 8, 2020 Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) begins a four-day public meeting focused on the Draft Risk Evaluation on Asbestos that was released on March [...]
ADAO Statement: 14 Attorneys General Urge EPA to Revise Their Draft Asbestos Risk Evaluation by Linda Reinstein
Posted on June 5, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Linda Reinstein, president and co-founder of The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), issued the following statement in response to the fourteen Attorneys General who submitted comments to [...]
Press Conference Quotes and Video of 12 Asbestos Experts Discussing EPA’s Flawed Draft Asbestos Risk Evaluation
Posted on May 31, 2020 ADAO’s Zoom Press Conference with Experts to Discuss EPA’s Dangerously Narrow Draft Asbestos Risk Evaluation was a great success. We had nearly 100 attendees spanning from journalists, to public health [...]