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Top Investigation ASARCO Closed Through the Country's Largest Environmental Bankruptcy. The El Paso Trust Is $52 Million. The Asbestos Cohort Is Not in the Literature.
ASARCO El Paso operated 1888 to 2009 through the largest US environmental bankruptcy. $52M custodial trust. A separate 524(g) asbestos trust.
12 Countries Have Recalled Children's Craft Sand for Asbestos. The US Has Not.
OPSS, ACCC, MBIE, Health Canada, and EU regulators have pulled 80-plus asbestos-tainted children's sand products since November 2025. CPSC has issued zero.
A 52-Mile Industrial Corridor With Decades of Asbestos Exposure
Refineries, shipyards, and chemical plants along the Houston Ship Channel used asbestos insulation for decades. A documented look at the major exposure sites.
165 Mesothelioma Papers in Five Years. Texas Ranks Second in the United States. MD Anderson Wrote 113 of Them.
Texas-affiliated authors published 165 mesothelioma papers 2020-2025 per PubMed, second only to New York's 278. MD Anderson alone produced 113.
882 New Asbestos Cases in 2024. One Illinois County. More Than Any Other US Venue.
Madison County, Illinois filed 882 asbestos cases in 2024 per KCIC. Why this venue still leads national mesothelioma litigation.
Beaumont-Port Arthur Logged 278 Asbestos Deaths Over 23 Years. The Refinery Corridor's Exposure Map.
Jefferson and Orange Counties in southeast Texas hold the largest US refinery by capacity and a documented asbestos exposure history. The corridor map.
Texas Has 4 NCI Cancer Centers. The Mesothelioma Trials Concentrate at One. The Geographic Gap.
Texas has four NCI-designated cancer centers but mesothelioma trials concentrate at MD Anderson Houston. The driving distance from El Paso is 750 miles.
Texas Hosts a Dozen-Plus Military Installations. Most Were Built Before the 1972 OSHA Asbestos Standard.
Lackland, Fort Sam Houston, Fort Cavazos, Fort Bliss, NAS Corpus Christi: the pre-1980 building stock and what it means for veterans.
Todd Galveston Operated 1934 to 1990. Brown Shipbuilding Built WWII Destroyer Escorts. The Galveston Bay Asbestos Cohort.
Galveston, Texas City, Pelican Island, Orange. The Cold War-era shipyards and refineries that completed the Texas Gulf Coast asbestos triangle.
Vanderbilt Minerals Filed Chapter 11 With $117M in Talc Asbestos Liabilities. The 524(g) Trust Forming.
Vanderbilt Minerals LLC filed Chapter 11 February 16, 2026 with $117.2M in asbestos liabilities from industrial talc claims.
Navy Veterans Are 30% of US Mesothelioma Cases. The Four Public Shipyards Are Where the Cohort Was Built.
Pearl Harbor, Norfolk, Puget Sound, Portsmouth: the four public Navy shipyards and the documented mesothelioma cohort the asbestos exposure produced.
70% of Women Under 50 Diagnosed With Mesothelioma Have a Family Cancer History. BAP1 Syndrome Is Now the Lens.
MSKCC March 2026 JCO study identifies a young-female mesothelioma cohort whose disease traces to genetics, not asbestos. BAP1.
The Owens Corning Trust Was Funded With Approximately $5 Billion at 2006 Formation. The Subfund Payment Percentages Are Now 4.7% and 3.7%.
Owens Corning filed Chapter 11 in 2000. The 524(g) trust formed October 2006 with two subfunds. Payment percentages now 4.7% (OC) and 3.7% (Fibreboard).
16,200 Structures Destroyed in 37,469 Acres. The EPA and USACE Cleanup. The Latency Window Now Open.
Eaton and Palisades Fires January 2025: structure loss, EPA Phase 1 hazmat removal, USACE Phase 2 debris work, and what the latency window means.
The Celotex Asbestos Trust Has Operated Since 1998. Construction Trades Workers File the Majority of Claims. The Distribution Procedures Explained.
The Celotex Asbestos Settlement Trust pays personal injury claims from Celotex and Carey Canada products. The 8-tier disease structure and filing process.
EPA Banned Chrysotile in March 2024. The Chlor-Alkali Phase-Out Runs Through 2036.
EPA finalized the chrysotile asbestos rule on March 18, 2024. The 12-year phase-out runs through 2036. What changed, what didn't.
Trump Signed the WTCHP Funding Fix on February 3, 2026. The Mesothelioma Latency Clock Doesn't Care About Funding Cycles.
WTCHP funding secured through 2040 on February 3, 2026. ~140,000 enrollees. Mesothelioma is a certified condition.
Three J&J Talc Bankruptcies Failed in 31 Months. The 67,000 Cases Now Going to Trial.
J&J ran the Texas Two-Step three times in 31 months. Three federal judges rejected it. The dismissal of Red River Talc forces the MDL pipeline open.
Philadelphia Asbestos Filings Jumped 39.7% in 2025. New York Up 25%. St. Clair County Down 22%. The Map Is Being Redrawn.
KCIC: 4,244 US asbestos lawsuits in 2025, up 5.8%. Eastern coastal venues are absorbing filings as Illinois consolidates.
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