Executive Summary. Recent legislation authorized the Department of General Services (DGS) to sell and then lease back 11 stateâowned office properties. The saleâleaseback is designed to free up the stateâs equity in the buildings to provide oneâtime revenue for addressing the stateâs current budgetary shortfall.
Our Virginia railroad injury / disease law firm has been representing railroad workers ( transport workers such as engineers , switchman , conductors ) who claim various health illnesses including cancer as a result of being exposed to radioactive substances moved by railroads in and out of a nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment nuclear plants / ...
For more information on the following lung diseases see Pneumoconiosis. 1  Coal Workersâ Pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly referred to as black lung, is a type of pneumoconiosis caused by inhaling respirable coal mine dust. 2  Silicosis is a type of pneumoconiosis caused by inhaling respirable crystalline silica. Quartz is a type of crystalline silica that causes silicosis in coal miners because it is a major component of rocks. Silicosis causes x-ray changes similar to CWP; and it is especially seen in coal miners who are exposed to rock dust, such as roof bolters in underground mines and drillers in surface mines.