Asbestos was once treated like one of the most useful materials ever found. It resisted flame, insulated heat and electricity ...

Four months after Tower 100 at the Renaissance Center opened in July 1976, the maker of a fireproofing chemical called Monokote said its product would sheath the internal steel beams of Detroit's new ...

Asbestos is a scary and extremely dangerous material that’s been linked to all kinds of health horrors, including mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. Not scared yet? How’s this: If your house ...

Asbestos found in Harvard building materials recently forced at least one undergraduate to temporarily relocate out of his room in Winthrop House, although administrators say current levels of the ...

Asbestos imports have increased four-fold since the first of the year, and the proposed EPA ruling would leave protecting construction workers from asbestos up to states and you In May, the EPA ...

Some of the classrooms built decades ago at Amwamba Day Primary School in Igembe South Sub County. [File, Standard] For years, Amwamba Primary School in Meru County's Igembe area has been a ...

The Minns Labor Government is launching an NSW Asbestos Plan of Action and will conduct a two-year trial allowing NSW households to have asbestos ...

The School District of Philadelphia has an ongoing asbestos crisis that, as of Feb. 12, has closed seven schools this academic year for varying intervals of time. Hundreds of reports of damaged ...

Two companies dismantling the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth agreed Friday to pay Massachusetts up to $125,000 in fines after being accused of exposing the public to asbestos waste. The ...

Parents at a WA primary school say the education department has failed to properly address the ongoing issue of asbestos ...