A case of an Illinois resident winning a compensation of $90 million from his employer for allowing excessive exposure of asbestos in workplace, subjecting him to the trauma of mesothelioma cancer has resurfaced the percolating issue of commercial use of asbestos in the countries.

Despite of several warnings, industry players across the world are indulging into practices of involving asbestos into the construction work of buildings and moreover, building the inner lining of boilers and other heat producing units.

As per the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA), asbestos-related materials are potentially damaging for the human health and moreover, the long latency period of 20 to 30 years makes it even more difficult to make to curable.

Meanwhile, Cascade Paving Inc., of Salem, Oregon, and the Oregon Employees Federal Credit Union have been heavily penalized for violating the asbestos-related norms when it wiped out a 90-year-old home belonging to the credit union in September 2010.

Responding to the news, Ed Chambers, the President of EC2, Inc, a Midwest environmental consulting firm, claimed, “Since a number of asbestos related diseases occur decades after exposure, cases like the one in Bloomington happen all the time. Also many asbestos containing materials can still be found in buildings across the greater Chicago area and across Illinois”.