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Tony Garfalo, a former OxyChem worker.
They inhaled asbestos for decades on the job.
Now, workers break their silence
NPR
October 20, 2022 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/10/20/
1129999511/asbestos-ban-us-workers-cancer-risk
Photograph: Rich-Joseph Facun
for ProPublica.
Photo cropped by Anglonautes.
Labor
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos.
These Workers Are Paying the Price.
by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi,
photography by Rich-Joseph Facun,
graphics by Haisam Hussein
ProPublica
Oct. 20, 2022 5 a.m. EDT
https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-niagara-falls
Asbestos-related disease USA
2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/
1239299448/the-u-s-bans-most-common-form-of-asbestos-
after-decades-of-pushback-from-industr
2023
https://www.propublica.org/article/
epa-opens-new-public-comment-proposed-asbestos-ban - March 24, 2023
2022
https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-osha-apha - December 9, 2022
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/07/
1141020583/workers-asbestos-exposure-health-risks
https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-plant-mcintosh-alabama-olin - December 7, 2022
https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-ban-lawmakers-advocates-congress - October 27, 2022
https://www.propublica.org/article/
lawsuits-say-oxychem-released-asbestos-north-tonawanda - October 25, 2022
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/10/20/
1129999511/asbestos-ban-us-workers-cancer-risk
https://www.propublica.org/article/
asbestos-poisoning-chemical-plant-niagara-falls - October 20, 2022
2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/11/
914064239/covid-19-stalks-
a-montana-town-already-grappling-with-asbestos-disease
asbestosis USA
https://www.propublica.org/article/
lincare-medicare-lawsuit-settlements-oxygen-equipment - November 13, 2024
struggle to
breathe USA
https://www.propublica.org/article/
lincare-medicare-lawsuit-settlements-oxygen-equipment - November 13, 2024
Ilustration: Matt Kenyon
Enter the scan van
As insurers try once again
to deny liability for asbestos-related lawsuits,
they are braced for an avalanche of claims prompted
by US-style mobile
screening.
Jon Robins reports
The Guardian
Tuesday July 19, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/19/
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