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Title: America's 'Third Wave' Of Asbestos Disease Upends Lives Source: NPR

*Date:* Dec 18, 2015

*Summary: *The Environmental Protection Agency has banned some, but not all http://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos, asbestos products in the United States; 400 metric tons of the mineral were consumed in 2014, according to the U.S. Geological Survey http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/asbestos/mcs-2015-asbes.pdf. "The consumption's gone down by over a thousandfold" since the 1970s, said Castleman, who testifies almost exclusively for plaintiffs in asbestos-disease cases and was retained by Penny's lawyer. "The problem is the asbestos is still there."

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