In the spring of 2005, Georgia-Pacific Corp. found itself facing nearly $1 billion in liability from a product it hadn’t made in nearly three decades: a putty-like building material, known as joint ...
SHREVEPORT, La. - How can you tell if a house still has or once had asbestos? The only reliable way to know if your home contains asbestos is to hire an environmental consulting firm or asbestos ...
Woman saves herself, stabs man with glass shard during Battle Creek break-in Two women are safe after one of the pair stabbed a man in the stomach during a break-in early Saturday, according to Battle ...
Types of Asbestos Insulation and How to Get It Tested ...
If you want to cause homeowner anxiety, there's no better word to do it than "asbestos." Implicated in 5,000 U.S. deaths annually, it's nearly ubiquitous yet little understood in its threat. Here's a ...
An asbestos abatement project abutting a mixed-use development planned at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal is giving some local residents pause as they wonder what the future holds for the remainder of ...
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