With all that is going on in the asbestos world, including how the election of Donald Trump may make environmentalists glad that the United States Supreme Court shot down the Chevron doctrine, I have a number of blogs on which I am working. For today, I am going to re-post my listing of blogs which…
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Although I have discussed this issue in the past, I don’t recall grounding it from an historical document. In summary, many of the immigrants from Ellis Island originally worked in the coal mines. They later migrated to work in the Manville asbestos factory to escape those coal mines. As stated by Edward J. Purzycki in…
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Although this horror story on home renovations involving asbestos is from the U.K at https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/family-forced-to-flee-their-home-over-asbestos-alert-lose-100k-belongings, it happens in the United States and the rest of the world all the time. Having considered the issue, my advice to home buyers in the United States is as follows: After all, the life you could be saving is…
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The below are my notes and take-a-ways from the conference. If I got anything wrong, then the fault is mine and I apologize in advance for any inaccuracies. On October 17th and 18th (using the Aussie time of 17 hours ahead of Colorado time), I attended by remote access the “Asbestos & Hazardous Materials Management…
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With the fighting in both Gaza and the Ukraine, the microscopic and invisible asbestos-containing dust particles released by the bombing likely will be catastrophic to those locations in the coming years. After all, you can count the dead and injured bodies, you can check out bombed buildings and start to remove rubble and then build…
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I am earnestly preparing for my October 4th three theses defense and, as such, am going to skip doing a new asbestos blog this week. Probably next week also. Rather, as I realize how so many of the asbestos exposure decisions involve cost trade offs, I would just like to bring home how safety must…
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As many of you know, I have my oral defense of my three theses on October 4th and am working to be fully prepared and ready to go. When done, I start looking at PhD programs in history related to toxic minerals in the workplace. Looking at my blogs, I really messed up not doing…
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My weekly asbestos blogs since December 2020 are as follows including topic, date, and live link. Marty Blog Title Date Blog Location 1 Asbestos, a Magic Mineral Dec 16, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=619 2 A Short History Lesson Dec 16, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=621 3 Asbestos Companies Behaving Badly Dec 28, 2020 https://theasbestosblog.com/?p=744 4 A Call to Arms Jan…
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This week, we continue our discussion about the 1930 book written as part of the McGill University Economic Studies titled National Problems of Canada: The Asbestos Industry of Canada authored by M. M. Mendels. This blog focusing on two issues: the Forest Fires which led to the discovery of asbestos en mass in Canada and what the…
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The 1930 book written as part of the McGill University Economic Studies entitled National Problems of Canada: The Asbestos Industry of Canada authored by M. M. Mendels is quite a domino of information not readily available elsewhere. That is, a historian’s dream. I purchased a copy on EBay and am not able to locate an…
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