Newswise — Californians who live close to naturally occurring asbestos sources and who are exposed to low levels of the mineral are at increased risk for developing malignant mesothelioma, a serious ...

Asbestos contamination across public spaces in Austria and Hungary has raised concerns about how hazardous materials can spread undetected ...

When Dan Soliday was a kid in the 1960s, he and his friends sometimes played at the expansive quarry near his home in East Rockhill Township, Bucks County. Now, he’s scared for his 3-year-old ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In 1965, California lawmakers named serpentine the state rock because it symbolized the Gold Rush years and contained a mineral being put to myriad industrial uses. Nearly ...

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Oroville – Naturally-occurring asbestos has been found in the rock formations and in the air near the damaged Oroville Dam main spillway, according to a press release. Although California Department ...

OTSEGO, Mich. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began to cleanup an asbestos contaminated building at the vacant Rock-Tenn Paper Mill On April 3, 2019. The Rock-Tenn Paper Mill, located ...

Touching asbestos doesn’t scare Pierrette Théroux, founder of the Asbestos Historical Society. As a child, she woke to dustings of asbestos, fallen overnight like snow. On an August afternoon in ...

OTSEGO, Mich. — The Environmental Protection Agency was in charge of a $1 million demolition project of power house building at the former Rock-Tenn Paper Mill facility in Otsego, which was expected ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK - The Environmental Protection Agency continues to test for asbestos in a North Little Rock neighborhood after the toxic mineral was found at Conley Park. "We are just blanketing the ...

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