According to the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, DOE construction workers have an increased risk of certain cancers. In fact, the most significant finding at Hanford was a very high rate of mesothelioma, a cancer of the protective lining that covers most of the body’s internal organs.

Researchers from the North Carolina State University, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences used a mouse model to examine the effect of inhalation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on the lungs.

Before she dies, Dorothy Kuykendall wants her day in court. The 76-year-old from Terre Haute was exposed to asbestos, a toxin that can lead to a deadly cancer called mesothelioma, more than three decades ago when she handled the material regularly as a worker at the city’s Glas-Col Apparatus Co.

The family of a man who died of asbestos exposure from his work on a Navy ship won reinstatement of their claims against the makers of the vessel’s steam valves and pumps, in a California appeals court.

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) today announced its support for the Surgeon General`s statement acknowledging the dangers of asbestos and thanks the U.S. Senate for continued efforts to encourage a warning. The discovery of the April 1, 2009 acting U.S. Surgeon General statement is greatly appreciated by ADAO, who has always encouraged an official warning about asbestos dangers, as recommended by a U.S. Senate Resolution establishing the first week of April as “National Asbestos Awareness Week.”

The Yokosuka branch of the Yokohama District Court on Monday ordered the government to pay 76.84 million yen in compensation over the death of a worker at the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base due to Mesothelioma.

A local contractor and his brother have been indicted for illegally removing asbestos and transferring it to a storage facility in town.

An environmental strike force uncovered 76 drums of asbestos in a storage facility in Middleboro, and alleged it came from demolition projects in North Attleboro and Attleboro, according to the state attorney general.

Four former railroad workers are seeking more than $1 million from five railroad corporations, alleging they developed asbestosis after they were exposed to asbestos and second-hand cigarette smoke during their employment.