Asbestos Nation

EWG Action Fund /// Asbestos Nation

Blog

Preschoolers Face-to-Face with Asbestos

Mar. 30, 2015

My four-year-old son Jack likes to play on the floor. On one recent visit to his pre-school class, I played the tyrannosaurus rex and got “slayed” -- pinned to the floor -- by Jack and his pals James, George, Raymond, the other James, Peter, Julia and Amelia. I thought about that day when I read that Trinity Episcopal Church‘s School of Early Learning, just a few miles away in Arlington, had been shuttered indefinitely because dust from the floor tiles had tested positive for asbestos.

Products That Contain Asbestos Should Be Regulated And Labeled

Mar. 24, 2015

If a product you were thinking of buying contained asbestos, chances are you’d want to know while you were in the store, say, by reading a warning on the item’s label.

At Stake in the Senate TSCA Fight: The Fate of Asbestos

Mar. 17, 2015

Many Americans probably believe asbestos was banned years ago, consigned to the trash bin of history, never to be seen again. Not so. This notorious human carcinogen is still legal for use in the U.S.

Close
Menu

Sign up to receive email updates, action alerts, health tips, promotions to support our work and more from EWG and EWG Action Fund. You can opt-out at any time.