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The EPA Office of Inspector General investigated the issuance of these press releases and concluded that the agency did not have enough data about the range of possible pollutants other than asbestos to make a judgment, lacked public health benchmarks for appropriate levels of asbestos and other pollutants, and had imprecise methods for sampling asbestos in the air; it also noted that more than 25 percent of the bulk dust samples collected before September 18 showed the presence of asbestos above the agency's 1 percent benchmark.
The attorneys general, also primed by asbestos settlements, joined in with a new legal argument that held the industry liable for the Medicaid bills of all tobacco-damaged patients--an argument that has proved persuasive in three states.
USAT kicks off a series on worldwide asbestos, stunning with the news that an epidemic of asbestos-related diseases emerging in the poorer nations of the world will in the next 30 years kill at least one million workers involved in mining and manufacturing the stuff.
It does not, and should, discuss other recent product-liability cases of national importance, such as asbestos, tobacco, and hand guns.
Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.