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 ...

Hundreds of years before asbestos became ubiquitous in the construction industry, Byzantine monks used the fibrous material in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings during the late 1100s, ...

Asbestos feels like a problem from another era, yet it still lingers quietly inside many older Pennsylvania buildings. When ...

A $12 million price tag for asbestos removal from a single south suburban high school has one district wondering how it can afford to do what the government says it must. A preliminary consultant`s ...

HELENA — Contrary to the perception that the federal government will leave no asbestos behind in its cleanup of Libby, an official said Tuesday that the government is considering removing all ...

HELENA — Contrary to perception that the federal government will leave no asbestos behind in its ongoing cleanup of Libby, an official said Tuesday the government is considering removing all ...

GREENWICH — On the front door of Western Middle School Tuesday was a sign forbidding children under the age of 18 from entering the building. Around the corner, on the north face of the school, an ...

Hundreds of years before asbestos became ubiquitous in the construction industry, Byzantine monks used the fibrous material in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings during the late 1100s, ...