Sentences with phrase «act on asbestos»
The decision comes on the heels of a two - year debate between the agency, the Congress, and interest groups over the epa's failure to act on asbestos regulations.
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«EPA must consider all forms of asbestos in this initial list of chemicals it acts on.»
This year the EPA is set to review restrictions on 10 high priority chemicals as part of the Toxic Substance Control Act, including asbestos.
Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency, by failing to place a high priority on the problem of asbestos in schools, is to blame for the low level of public awareness of the hazards of the substance and the consequent failure of many local school officials to act promptly upon identifying problems, an agency management team has concluded.
It has a specialist asbestos - related disease practice, headed by Michael Osborne, who has more than more than 12 years experience of making claims for asbestos disease, acting solely on behalf of victims and their families.
In a 3 - 2 majority decision, the court held that the occupier of the site was responsible for all workers on the site not just employees, under the Factories Act 1961, and that industry regulations apply to all factories using asbestos not just those involved in the asbestos industry, in McDonald v National Grid [2014] UKSC 53.
In a 3 - 2 majority decision, the court held that the occupier of the site was responsible for all workers on the site not just employees, under the Factories Act 1961, and that industry regulations apply to all factories using asbestos not just those involved in the asbestos industry, in
Recently, the Supreme Court noted in Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Limited v Higgins Construction plc [2015] UKSC 38 4 All ER 482 at para [25] that that point decided in Sandwell was «not questioned» by the House of Lords in Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Lincoln CC [1999] 2 AC 349 when it had to decide whether the extended period provided by s 32 of the Act applied to restitutionary claims to recover payments made based on mistake.
The Fairchild decision, the Compensation Act 2006, and the proposed Scottish reform of the law on pleural plaques all demonstrate that asbestos is an extraordinarily potent catalyst for the evolution of the law.