Chrysotile asbestos is the only kind of asbestos still used in the U.S. and is linked to nearly 40,000 deaths every year. It ...

The World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research agency has delivered a damning report on powdered mineral talc, calling ...

After three decades of attempts, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned the only form of asbestos still in use — part of a family of toxic minerals linked to lung cancer and other ...

This includes construction material like asbestos cement (AC), which are still a common sight on buildings and sheds in the West as well. Within the serpentine subgroup we find chrysotile ...

"We're the only Western industrial nation not to completely ban asbestos," she told the BBC. On Monday, EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the ban applied only to chrysotile asbestos, also known ...

Asbestos, “the incombustible” (translated from the Greek word for “unquenchable”) is a fibrous mineral substance known technically as chrysotile. Its property of resistance to heat made it ...

Although most asbestos ores contain 5–10 per cent chrysotile in the form of cross- or slip-fiber veins within massive serpentinite bodies, no such veins are to be found in the Coalinga deposit despite ...

TASS/. Thai manufacturers of building materials containing chrysotile asbestos are interested in expanding the import of raw materials from Russia, the head of Oranit, one of the largest companies ...

Most recently, the EPA announced a ban on some of the lingering permitted uses of asbestos, specifically its most commonly used type, chrysotile. While significant progress has been made in ...

Today in Australia the use of asbestos in any capacity has been banned since 2003. The Federal Government’s Asbestos and ...

A popular construction material for decades, asbestos is often found in homes built between the 1930s and 1980s. However, the material is very hazardous when disturbed, which is why it’s best to ...

After three decades of attempts, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned the only form of asbestos still in use — part ...