The Chrysotile Defense: How the Asbestos Industry Created Scientific Doubt for Fifty Years
The asbestos industry's most durable lobbying strategy has been to argue that chrysotile — the only form of asbestos still commercially used…
Borel v. Fibreboard: The Landmark Case That Opened the Asbestos Litigation Floodgates
In 1973, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the first successful asbestos products liability verdict in American history. Clarence Borel, an…
The Saranac Lake Laboratory: How the Asbestos Industry Buried Its Own Science
For forty years, the Saranac Lake Laboratories conducted research on industrial lung diseases — substantially funded by asbestos manufacturers. When their animal…
Asbestos in American Schools: The Buildings That Exposed a Generation
The majority of US school buildings constructed between 1950 and 1975 contain asbestos in ceiling tiles, floor tiles, pipe insulation, and spray-applied…
W.R. Grace and the Libby Disaster: How a Company Poisoned an Entire Town
The Libby, Montana vermiculite mine — operated by W.R. Grace & Co. for decades — contaminated an entire community with asbestos. Internal…
The Johns-Manville Papers: What America’s Largest Asbestos Producer Knew in 1934
A review of more than 800 internal documents from Johns-Manville Corporation reveals that company leadership was warned in 1934 that asbestos exposure…
