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... Playing with asbestos in Ellwood City: Town's illness rates being scrutinized Local News Latest News Previous Articles Neighborhoods News Obituaries Education Weather Elections Photo Journal Transportation Events Calendar Lottery The Morning File Multimedia Capitol Notes Columnists Consumer Special Reports First Amendment Playing with asbestos in Ellwood City: Town's illness rates being scrutinized Saturday, March 18, 2006 By Mike Bucsko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ELLWOOD CITY - Growing up in the west end of town during the 1960s, Keith Foley and dozens of other kids spent every summer day at a playground near a plant owned by W.R.

Grace and Co.

The playground had a baseball field and a patch of grass the kids used for football, along with the usual swing sets and monkey bars.

But the playground also had a component unique to its location, silver-colored rocks and gravel, which were byproducts of a material produced at the Grace plant.

"We all joked about it growing up," said Mr.

Foley, 50, who now lives in Wayne, in another part of Lawrence County.

"We went home every day dusty and dirty and, when it was raining, we went home looking like the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz," covered with silver muck." In September, federal officials distributed a health alert to people in Ellwood City about the potential harm from asbestos exposure from the waste rocks discarded by the Grace plant.

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... Testing for Silicosis Comes Under Scrutiny in Congress - The New York Times NYTimes: Home - Site Index - Archive - Help Testing for Silicosis Comes Under Scrutiny in Congress By JULIE CRESWELL Published: March 8, 2006 The intensifying investigations into the validity of silicosis claims are having a spillover effect in litigation involving other suspected hazards.

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... MIRED IN ASBESTOS - March 7, 2006 Mail Tribune :: Online Edition Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend March 7, 2006 Roger T.

Curtis, an asbestos inspector with Environmental Management Services Inc.

in White City, walks around with an electric blower to stir up stray asbestos fibers for safe removal from the former VIBES Main One building in downtown Medford on Monday Mail Tribune / Jim Craven Mired in asbestos Local environmental cleanup company wants to see legislation protecting small businesses from asbestos lawsuits By Greg Stiles Mail Tribune When Tommy Malot founded an environmental cleanup company five years ago, it made sense to his customers and to his accountant.

Among the Central Point business’ major components was asbestos abatement and removal.

In the years since, Malot discovered even a remote association with asbestos can be financially vexing given the mass of litigation that has piled up for nearly four decades.

Last month, Malot journeyed to Capitol Hill where he asked a Senate panel to support legislation that would establish a $140 billion industry-financed trust fund.

The Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2005 bill by Sen.

Arlen Specter, R-Pa., would push tens of thousands of asbestos-exposure claims out of the court system and allow victims to directly apply for compensation.

"We never produced, installed or sold any asbestos related material, and yet even our small, local company has been threate...