Philadelphia’s public schools are facing federal criminal allegations of failing to properly inspect eight schools for ...

About 300 of the school district's aging set of 339 buildings contain asbestos, the U.S. attorney's office said in a release. Asbestos , a construction material in wide use until the 1980s, has ...

Belfast Council said in a statement: ““Belfast City Council previously took enforcement action at this site in 2011 due to the presence of high-risk asbestos containing materials which were ...

This image indicates where investigators located asbestos containing materials in the building. (Courtesy of Eastern Maine Development Corp.) Town officials told DEP investigators in the late April ...

These disorders are characterized by scarring of the tissue between the air sacs in the lungs, which is often caused by exposure to dangerous airborne materials like asbestos. There are two main signs ...

Former President Joe Biden's administration banned "ongoing uses" of the last form of asbestos permitted in the United States.

According to newly released court filings, the EPA is 'reconsidering' a 2024 ban on the last legal form of asbestos still ...

Exposure to asbestos is linked to more than 40,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to the Biden administration's EPA.

Roughly 100 tons of asbestos-containing materials are shipped off Guam a year, Moore said. Unitek sends most of the asbestos materials it disposes of for Guam clients to a U.S. EPA-approved ...

Known as “white” asbestos, chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma, a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.

Despite the ban on asbestos, an estimated 300,000 non-domestic buildings built before 1999 still contain the deadly material (Stephen Pond/PA) . A bonfire is in the process of being constructed at ...