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Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2007 01:33 Written by rslcpol Monday, 26 November 2007 11:17
This could get real ugly long before it comes close to moving towards getting better.
But in a court brief filed for Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, state officials said the company wants to eliminate the only real standard to protect human health in the region from possible ill effects of the fibers.”Northshore’s motion is nothing more than a subterfuge to collaterally attack … efforts to reduce Northshore’s excessive asbestos fiber emissions,” the court document states.
In another brief, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen noted that recent reports from the Minnesota Department of Health show unusually high levels of mesothelioma in the region. The disease is caused only by exposure to asbestos fibers.