Category: <span>Awareness/Advocacy</span>

Category: Awareness/Advocacy

Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Awareness/Advocacy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Support/Support Groups/Organizations

Nonprofit Teams With Firefighter Union for Asbestos Ban Campaign

 

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization is teaming with the International Association of Fire Fighters on a new anti-asbestos campaign. In a continued push toward a national ban of the toxic mineral, the organizations have created a 120 foot high and 84 foot wide billboard in New York City’s Times Square. A firefighter in full gear […]

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Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Awareness/Advocacy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Support/Support Groups/Organizations

Nonprofit Teams With Firefighter Union for Asbestos Ban Campaign

 

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization is teaming with the International Association of Fire Fighters on a new anti-asbestos campaign. In a continued push toward a national ban of the toxic mineral, the organizations have created a 120 foot high and 84 foot wide billboard in New York City’s Times Square. A firefighter in full gear […]

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Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Awareness/Advocacy, Mesothelioma News

Firefighters Union Advocates for Total U.S. Asbestos Ban

 

A representative of the International Association of Fire Fighters appeared before a congressional subcommittee recently to push for a total ban of asbestos in the United States. The IAFF represents thousands of firefighters in the U.S. and Canada. The labor union is supporting the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2023, which would amend the […]

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asbestos exposure, Awareness/Advocacy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Bill to Ban Asbestos Reintroduced by Oregon Legislators

 

Two Oregon legislators have reintroduced a bill to end the importation of asbestos, a known carcinogen banned in nearly 70 other countries. The bill would amend the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 and ban asbestos in the United States.  The Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2023, first introduced in 2019, was reintroduced […]

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Asbestos (general), Awareness/Advocacy, Mesothelioma News

ADAO Asbestos Prevention and Awareness Conference Runs Sept. 16-17

 

Medical specialists, environmental experts and mesothelioma cancer survivors will be among those gathering for the 17th annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference, to be held Sept. 16-17, at Emory University in Atlanta. The world is invited to watch and learn with a free livestream, which is once again embracing the “Where Knowledge and Action […]

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Awareness/Advocacy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Peritoneal, Pleural, Treatment

MARF to Host International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma

 

Leading medical specialists will gather with mesothelioma patients, families, friends and advocates at the much-anticipated 2022 International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma, July 23, in Chicago. This is an event well worth attending. The day-long symposium will be held at Summit Chicago, a welcoming venue where a wide range of mesothelioma experts will be speaking on […]

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Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Awareness/Advocacy, Mesothelioma News

Senate Passes Asbestos Awareness Resolution, Inches Closer to Ban

 

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed its annual National Asbestos Awareness Week resolution, inching closer to long-awaited, much-anticipated legislation to ban the toxic substance. The bipartisan resolution urged the Office of the Surgeon General to warn and better educate citizens about the public health issues of asbestos exposure, the primary cause of mesothelioma cancer. Advocates welcomed […]

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