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2/23/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Wyoming” For those who wonder about what the American West was like in the first part of the 19th Century, Wyoming is a good approximation. For its size (the 10th largest state at nearly 98,000 square miles), it is the least densely populated; less than half a million humans inhabit the state. [...]
2/24/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Massachusetts” The list of job sites, companies, factories and public facilities in Massachusetts at which asbestos -containing materials (ACMs) are now or have been used is extensive, containing over 400 different industries and institutions. They run the gamut from the usual industrial settings such as gas works, power plants, foundries and shipyards [...]
2/24/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Iowa” Iowa’s primary industry is agriculture; as a result, the rate of asbestos-related mortality in this state has been somewhat lower than other areas of the nation. Since 1979, 460 Iowans (out of a population of approximately 2.9 million) have lost their lives to asbestos diseases. The overwhelming majority of these were [...]
2/23/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Washington, D.C.” A recent report from the Government Accountability Office revealed that a number of low-paid maintenance workers who service HVAC and water lines underneath the buildings of Capitol Hill have been breathing asbestos fibers for years – and highly paid members of Congress took little, if any notice until Illinois senator [...]
2/23/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Hawaii” Although geologically active, Hawaii differs from the continental U.S. in that its terrain was not formed from folding action resulting from the collision of tectonic plates, but from the building action of volcanoes. As a result, Hawaii is unique in that it is one of the few places in the world [...]
2/25/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Virginia” When one looks at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry asbestos Map of the United States – which shows all naturally-occurring asbestos deposits in the country as well as areas in which it has been prospected and mined – one is struck by the pattern of such deposits that [...]
2/25/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Washington” Located in the mountainous Pacific Northwest, Washington state has its fair share of serpentine, from which chrysotile asbestos is produced. There are at least five “past producers” in the northern part of the state as well as numerous serpentine deposits in the central Cascades and in the Okanogan highlands in the [...]
2/25/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Tennessee” The Volunteer State has two major industries that are of interest to those concerned with occupational asbestos exposure. One of these is paper and pulp; International Paper (now operating as “Evergreen”) Company, is headquartered in Memphis. The other product is electrical power. The Tennessee Valley Authority, created under the Franklin Roosevelt [...]
2/25/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer South Carolina” The Palmetto State has two major industrial sources of asbestos exposure: ship building and repair, and power generation plants. For many reasons, these two industries have some of the highest rates of asbestos-related disease victims. South Carolina also has abundant deposits of serpentine, from which comes the common chrysotile variety [...]