Asbestos Information Association 'News & Notes' of 30 June 1980, with Wall Street Journal Clippings on Johns-Manville and Asbestos Litigation (1980)

A six-page Asbestos Information Association newsletter dated 30 June 1980, followed by four pages of Wall Street Journal clippings. The newsletter reports on Senator Gary Hart's asbestos worker compensation bill, a CPSC general order on asbestos in consumer products, a House risk-assessment hearing, and an editorial on smoking in the workplace. The clippings cover Johns-Manville's counterattack on critics and a Los Angeles judge's ruling barring punitive damages in an asbestos case. The stamp shows the newsletter was received and routed to F. J. Shortsleeve in July 1980. unreviewed

Preview. This catalog record was drafted from the document's pages and has not yet been reviewed by a person. Read the document itself for what it says.

Read the article

Asbestos Information Association. "Asbestos Worker Compensation Bill Introduced." Asbestos Information Association News & Notes, 1980.

Search PubMed for this article (a search, not the article itself)

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: AIA News & Notes: Hart's 'Asbestos Health Hazards Compensation Act of 1980' (S.2847) and the CPSC general order held up in GAO review
• Pages 3-4: AIA News & Notes: contents of the CPSC general order, House panel hearing on risk assessment (H.R. 4939), and further items (page 4 OCR is mirrored)
• Pages 5-6: AIA News & Notes: industry comment on smoking in the workplace (Kotin and Gaul editorial), OSHA, and further items (page 6 OCR is mirrored)
• Pages 7-8: Wall Street Journal article by Neil Maxwell on how Johns-Manville is counterattacking in the asbestos dispute
• Pages 9-10: Wall Street Journal clippings of 30 June 1980: no punitive damages in an asbestos case (Hogard), and a White House committee urging chemical controls

People and organizations

From Asbestos Information Association (publisher of the News & Notes newsletter) to F. J. Shortsleeve (name on the 'RECEIVED' stamp, July 1980).

• F. J. Shortsleeve (recipient)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America (named)
• EPA (named)
• Harvard University (named)
• Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group (named)
• MIT (named)
• National Toxicology Program (named)
• Office of Science and Technology Policy (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: EPA · Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-2238 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 10 pages. Production numbers UCC 004602 to UCC 004611.