Peter Photakis never imagined that being a teacher would one day lead him into one of South Australia’s most important public ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday a federal ban on all uses of chrysotile asbestos, delivering on a yearslong federal effort to remove the toxic substance from use in industrial ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year but is still used in some chlorine bleach, ...

The inexorable march of American public health forward into the past goes merrily onward. From The New York Times: Known as “white” asbestos, chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries ...

FILE PHOTO: A boulder containing chrysotile, or white asbestos, lies at the Cana Brava mine in Minacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a rule that ...

Public health advocates sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to compel officials to disclose whether their rapid demolition of the White House's East Wing annex exposed workers or the public to ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...

PITTSBURGH — Channel 11 spoke with an asbestos removal company after the recent ban by the EPA on the impact it could have locally. “Chrysotile is more prevalent,” said Jim Kane, owner of Kane ...

(WASHINGTON) -- Days after the abrupt demolition of the East Wing of the White House, critics are questioning whether the Trump administration and contractors involved in razing the historic structure ...

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