The asbestos crisis showed what happens when a hidden hazard becomes a legal tidal wave. PFAS is following a disturbingly ...

Following tests conducted in January 2024, asbestos was discovered in the exterior window caulking and glazing putty of 1901–Laughlin Hall, prompting the University to contract an asbestos abatement ...

WorkSafeBC has released some numbers regarding workplace deaths in 2025, and a significant number lost their lives to ...

The EPA’s latest decision to review its own 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos reignites a regulatory tug of war that has spanned decades, administrations, and now, political ideologies. What counts as ...

A terminal cancer patient is taking legal action against his former employer Barclays bank, as he believes exposure to toxic minerals in the building where he worked caused his disease. Mervyn Jessop, ...

Work on a new downtown park in Toms River was halted due to asbestos contamination concerns. State officials shut down the site after two older homes were demolished by public works employees. The ...

TOMS RIVER, NJ — Work to turn a property at Clifton Avenue and Batchelor Street into a park has been halted by state inspectors amid concerns about asbestos contamination at the site. Inspectors from ...

The air filter humming away on her desk is a new addition to North Carolina Rep. Maria Cervania’s office. It’s been there ever since she came around the corner from her office late one night to find a ...

Workers whose jobs involved exposure to asbestos – including boilermakers, boiler workers, carpenters, factory workers, laborers, pipe coverers, and pipefitters – may be in danger of developing ...

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 ...

Asphalt today is relatively safe to work with. Crews don’t have to worry about their health, or the health of the public, on a typical milling and paving job. However, back in the 1960’s it wasn’t ...