A July 3, 2015 article in The Northern Echo in the UK brings news of another suit against Cape entities. Mr. Stephenson, the plaintiff, has gone three rounds...

After decades of operation, the Canadian-based Chrysotile Institute has closed. The web site is here, but who knows for how long. Future generations may have...

The Montreal Gazette is reporting that the Quebec government has now said it will guarantee a loan to continue asbestos mining and exports. The government ac...

This story from the Montreal Gazette recounts apparent new investment in asbestos mining in Quebec’s Jeffery mine. It’s disappointing that the reporting lack...

Johns-Manville for many years owned the chrysotile mine in the Canadian town of Asbestos. The town is northeast of Montreal, and not too far north of Vermont...

This January 2010 article from South Africa reports on this new auditor general report raising major issues regarding failed clean up of mines, including old...

A May 5, 2009 Slate article by Shaun Walker is about Russian towns that revolve around one industry. Such towns, he says, are known as monogorods. As it happ...