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Overall New Mexico Asbestos History New Mexico has a long history of asbestos usage affecting workers in a wide range of industries. Power plants, pipelines, mines, construction – all these industries, and more, exposed employees to the dangers of asbestos. The most deadly disease contracted was mesothelioma, followed by lung cancer and asbestosis. Power Plant …
For many decades, it has been known that asbestos can cause cancer. A limited ban was placed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on asbestos products and their use in the 1970s. These limitations left room for asbestos to continue to pose a health risk with current products that can affect health for the next …
Too often, cancer patients and their families must choose between traditional hospice limited to palliative care and active treatment of their disease. Fortunately, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) has taken a lead in offering both hospice/palliative care and cancer therapy concurrently in the United States (US). This is a major step in what has been …
The Four Corners Power Plant is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation near the borders of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah in the town of Fruitland, New Mexico. Units 1, 2, and 3 coal boilers were constructed beginning in 1963 with other units beginning operation in 1969. In the 1960s, asbestos was an integral …
Silica is created when silicon and oxygen combine. These minerals are called silicates and comprise about 90% of the Earth’s crust mass. That means most people come in contact with some form of silica each day, but, like asbestos, the undisturbed mineral is not the danger, it’s the dust caused by disturbing the mineral. The …
