LegalView Reports Cancer Risk For St. Louis Residents After Unapproved Asbestos Removal During Demolition, USA
September 30, 2008 at 12:37 pm · Filed under Medical News, Medical Malpractice / Litigation
LegalView.com, the most comprehensive resource for everything legal on the Web, recently reported the use of an unapproved method of asbestos removal by the city of St. Louis potentially exposing thousands of residents to asbestos fibers during the demolition of buildings. The city has been paving the way for a new international airport since 2000, and has been using a wet method of asbestos removal during construction, in which asbestos is hosed down with water. However, the method has apparently not been 100 percent approved by the EPA. According to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch news article, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was unaware of the use of the “wet method” by the city of St. Louis.