​Fifty years after a landmark medical study definitively established that asbestos kills, the exact death toll remains unknown. Combining federal death records with studies on lung cancer deaths from asbestos, EWG Action Fund calculated that 12,000 to 15,000 Americans a year die from asbestos-related diseases. In all, from 1999 to 2017 an estimated 236,981 to … Continue reading Mapping the Deadly Toll of Asbestos – State by State, County by County