Many of those pipes contain asbestos, and they were the focus of a reporter investigation last week. The Environmental Protection Agency sets a limit of 7 million asbestos fibers per liter allowed ...

The survey report indicates the company found asbestos on the second, third and fourth stories in floor tiles, pipe joints, a ...

Demolition of a crumbling warehouse in Winnipeg’s West Alexander neighbourhood has been halted over concerns about asbestos.

SAN ANTONIO - Asbestos-containing pipes remain in widespread use throughout San Antonio, raising health concerns due to asbestos's known link to cancer when inhaled into the lungs. While the ...

asbestos would also be used everywhere for insulation purposes, as well as around boilers, steam pipes and everywhere else where the heat-retaining yet thermally stable properties were very useful.

The owner of a Beach Street building the city has been interested in buying said he has hired an environmentalist to do an asbestos evaluation.

During the last century, the U.S. military resorted to asbestos when the World War II war effort demanded accessible materials to mass-produce equipment. Manufacturers wanted to profit from the ...

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral in rocks and stone that was frequently found in floor tiles, insulation, and paint between the 1940s and 1970s. Lung cancer and other health risks ...

Evacuated neighbour Many building materials used prior to 1990 contain asbestos, including pipe wrap, insulation, tiles, drywall compound, ceiling tiles and window sealant. The microscopic fibres ...

San Antonio's water infrastructure, with over 2,000 miles of asbestos-cement pipes, is undergoing a replacement plan due to ...