Critics are questioning if the demolition of the White House East Wing adhered to federal health and safety standards, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering a ban on the last type of asbestos still used in the U.S. - a mineral that has been tied to cancer and heavily regulated for decades. Now, the ...

A SURGERY and community centre in Aberfan has closed temporarily – so contractors can remove asbestos. Pantglas Surgery in Aberfan shut its doors on Monday and the closure is expected to last two ...

Asbestos is the name for six kinds of minerals found naturally in the earth. They're made up of bundles of fibers that are flexible, lightweight, and resistant to heat, fire, chemicals, and ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. During her teenage years Galy O'Connor had a job in a factory where she worked mixing paint colours. What she didn't know then, but ...

WORK on a new health centre has been suspended and patients moved due to fears about asbestos and exposure to noise and dust. St Luke’s Surgery, Pantile Avenue, Southend, has been operating out of ...

CAMP KINSER, Okinawa — The Okinawa Military Housing Office has delayed repair work on spalled concrete at housing towers on this Marine Corps base after discovering asbestos in some balconies, ...

More than 3,000 U.K. claimants accuse U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson of knowingly selling asbestos-tainted ...

A Walthamstow mother who suffered from undiagnosed cancer for at least six months before being referred to a cancer clinic was failed by her GP, a coroner has found. Hadia Girshab, 61, visited The ...