Q: We bought our house about eight months ago and just learned that we have asbestos insulation on the air ducts in our attic. The sellers must have known about it because they purchased a new forced ...

Swanton Health Officer Suzie Kelleher issued an emergency order on Thursday after receiving reports that a house that burned ...

The Flatiron steam pipe explosion that sent debris and asbestos spewing from the ground has officials taking no chances. Con Edison says much of its 104-mile network of steam pipes is coated with ...

I receive a lot of questions from home buyers about asbestos. Will we identify the presence of asbestos? Can we test for asbestos? Does this or that material contain asbestos? And so on. During one of ...

Two Philadelphia schools that were supposed to reopen in the new year will instead remain closed due to asbestos. Alexander K. McClure Elementary School on 600 W. Hunting Park Avenue as well as Laura ...

Q:I just found out that my 1943 house has insulation in the walls - I'm assuming it's asbestos. I can't afford to tear out my walls. What can I do? Are the cancerous fibers getting into the air ...

Paul Brodeur, a staff writer at the New Yorker for many years, is the author of four books on asbestos disease. The renowned epidemiologist Dr. Irving J. Selikoff was known to say that studying ...

DEADLY asbestos has been found in even more sand-filled children’s toys after a string of product recalls in the UK. Parents ...

Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer linked to asbestos, but a trial hopes to prolong patient lives.