Ongoing federal and state programs oversee efforts to prevent environmental release and abate existing asbestos sources. Understanding, acceptance and voluntary compliance with federal and state ...

On the coast of Newfoundland, waste from a shuttered asbestos mine has been a troubling source of contamination for decades.

In 1922, the U.S. Navy identified the naturally occurring asbestos mineral as the most efficient and cost-effective ...

Global Asbestos Awareness Week raises awareness about the dangers of asbestos and fights for an international ban.

They also questioned whether other asbestos sources could have caused the plaintiffs’ illnesses and suggested Walder and Wells would have been trespassing on railroad property. Interactive Map ...

Considering the Military’s decades-long extensive use of toxic asbestos, it is not surprising that California had 27,080 asbestos-caused deaths between 1999 and 2017, which is the most in the ...

The owner of Vancouver-based 4W's Demo Ltd. told the Georgia Straight that unsafe operations place not only workers but residents at risk of deadly asbestos exposure. “There’s a lot of ...

The danger: asbestos. “I saw plastic being taped on the doors and walls and then the asbestos caution signs, and I knew this wasn't quite right,” Cervania, D-Wake, said. “And we weren't ...