Land bank members voted Tuesday to apply for $549,500 in brownfield remediation funds to tear down a building at 290 North ...

Toxics in the air from urban wildfires may include dioxins, asbestos, and lead. But testing, until recently, for these air ...

Asbestos mineral fibers were widely used by most U.S. industries for decades until the 1980s, when information about their carcinogenic effects started to surface. The military, too, applied large ...

Bundaberg council says the building needs to be removed quickly because it contains asbestos. A historic Surf Life Saving Queensland building will be demolished after major erosion left the ...

A man who created 'choking smog' after making a fortune by keeping and illegally burning asbestos, cars, fridges and tyres has been ordered to carry out unpaid work. Derek McAllister admitted ...

For most of the 20th century, every branch of the U.S. military relied on asbestos to build their bases. Only later did it become known that working or living on military bases with asbestos can cause ...

Asbestos is a strong and heat-resistant mineral ... P.C., responsible for case evaluation and financial analysis. The law firm, based in Birmingham, Alabama, works with victims of toxic exposure.

Georgia-Pacific’s talc liability unit Bestwall LLC said a lawsuit seeking to limit the company’s ability in bankruptcy to block future lawsuits over asbestos exposure is premature and unnecessary.

Liverpool Council has moved to ease concerns over the presence of asbestos on school playing fields in Fazakerley. Members of the city’s planning committee expressed their concerns over how a small ...

Asbestos is a generic term covering a range of naturally occurring fibrous silicate minerals. It consists of six unique minerals — chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite and ...

a proposed victims' trust does not qualify for special bankruptcy rules that were originally designed for companies that used asbestos; and the voting process that J&J used and said it won with ...