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Top Investigation Houston Craft-Sand Shelf Audit: The Brands Recalled Abroad Are Still For Sale in Texas
Brands named in 80-plus asbestos craft-sand recalls still sit on Houston-area shelves. CPSC recalled one line six months in and has tested none of the rest.
Hunters Point, Mare Island, and NAS Alameda are each on the EPA Superfund NPL. None has a Bay Area-specific worker cohort study.
Hunters Point, Mare Island, and NAS Alameda each carry EPA Superfund records documenting ACM. No PubMed cohort study covers Bay Area Navy workers.
2,236 Mesothelioma Deaths in 2022. Zero Counted by Veteran Status.
CDC WONDER: 2,236 underlying mesothelioma deaths in 2022, 2,482 by any mention. Zero federal datasets flag the veteran count. We trace each agency.
117 years of smelting in El Paso. $1.79B bankruptcy. Zero peer-reviewed mesothelioma cohort study of the workers.
ASARCO El Paso ran 1888 to 2009 through the largest US environmental bankruptcy. $52M custodial trust. The smelter-worker mesothelioma cohort is unpublished.
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.
Harris County Recorded 524 Mesothelioma Deaths Along a 52-Mile Industrial Corridor
Exxon Baytown, Shell Deer Park, Lyondell Channelview, Todd Shipyards, and Brown Shipbuilding ran on asbestos for decades. A primary-source map of the cohort.
Texas Wrote 165 of America's 1,191 Mesothelioma Papers. MD Anderson Wrote 121 of Them.
PubMed counts 165 Texas-affiliated mesothelioma papers 2020-2025, second only to New York's 278. MD Anderson alone produced 121.
One Illinois County Holds 42% of America's Mesothelioma Filings. A 1995 Court Order Explains How.
Madison County's asbestos docket is 92% mesothelioma and holds 42% of all US meso filings. A 1995 standing order auto-expedites every mesothelioma case.
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's Documented Asbestos-Exposure Cohorts Outside Houston Have Zero Active Mesothelioma Trials
Texas's documented asbestos-exposure cohorts (ASARCO El Paso, the Beaumont refinery corridor) have zero active mesothelioma trials. The bench is in Houston.
Texas Has 87 Active Installations in DoD Cleanup, 93 Formerly Used Defense Sites. The Program Does Not Count Asbestos.
DoD's own restoration accounting puts Texas military cleanup past $2.6B across 87 active installations, 9 BRAC, 93 FUDS. None of it disaggregates asbestos.
Harris County: 524 Mesothelioma Deaths. Jefferson-Orange: 278. Galveston, Between Them, Is Uncounted Here.
Galveston Bay's one fully verified anchor is the CSB BP Texas City finding. The county's own asbestos toll is not surfaced in the federal record.
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.
A 1985 Study of 7,971 Pearl Harbor Shipyard Workers Found Mesothelioma at 11 Times the Local Rate. The Prior Version Cited a Swedish Yard Instead.
Kolonel 1985: 7,971 Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard workers, mesothelioma at ~11x the Hawaii rate. The real primary Navy-yard cohort the prior version omitted.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Found 70% of Patients Under 50 With Pleural Mesothelioma Carry a Family Cancer History. BAP1 Syndrome Is the Lens.
MSKCC's 2026 JCO Precision Oncology study identifies a young pleural mesothelioma cohort whose disease traces partly to BAP1 germline mutation, not asbestos.
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).
Pre-1980 Altadena and Pacific Palisades housing burned. SCAQMD runs five air sites. No agency tests the parcels.
Pre-1980 housing in the Eaton and Palisades burn zones contained asbestos. SCAQMD runs a 5-site air-monitoring network. No agency tests parcels.
Celotex Has Paid 7% Since 2023. Carey Canada Mined the Fiber. Construction Trades Carry the Cohort.
Celotex pays 7% of scheduled value since June 2023. The 1990 Chapter 11 anchored the Hillsborough Holdings reorganization. Construction-trades workers file.
The Import Ban Took Effect May 2024. USGS Shows US Chrysotile Imports Were Already Zero the Year Before.
EPA's chrysotile import ban took effect May 28, 2024. USGS trade data show US imports had already collapsed to ~0 in 2023, with 8 chlor-alkali plants left.
The Program Covers 9/11 Mesothelioma and Is Authorized to 2090. The Count of Certified Cases Is Published Nowhere.
WTCHP covers mesothelioma and is authorized to 2090, but no primary source publishes a 9/11 mesothelioma case count. Only evidence: a 4-patient series.
Three J&J Talc Bankruptcies Failed in 41 Months. The 67,000 Cases Now Going to Trial.
J&J ran the Texas Two-Step three times in 41 months. Three federal judges rejected it. The dismissal of Red River Talc forces the MDL pipeline open.
KCIC's 2024 Report: 3,931 US Asbestos Filings. 85% in 15 Jurisdictions. One Firm Filed 1 in 5.
KCIC's 2024 Asbestos Litigation Year in Review: 3,931 filings, 85% in 15 jurisdictions, more than half from 5 plaintiff firms. The Gori Law Firm filed 788.
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