Asbestos insulation comes in many forms and can look loose, lumpy, and fluffy like wool or hardened like corrugated cardboard or pebbly, and has a gray, gray-brown, or silvery gold color.

Asbestos spray materials and pipe insulation were banned in the 1970s. The Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972 established the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which banned asbestos fireplace ...

Prosecutors said it was the first time a school district in the U.S. has faced such environmental criminal allegations.

Q: We bought our house about eight months ago and just learned that we have asbestos insulation on the air ducts in our attic. The sellers must have known about it because they purchased a new ...

Noah talks with Andrew Schneider, Senior National Correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, about an asbestos company that allegedly knew it's products could cause cancer as long ago as ...

Some of the insulation materials used by these men, such as fibrous glass, cork and hair felts, contain no asbestos, whereas others, such as magnesia or calcium silicate insulation block and ...

Asbestos is an insulation that was used for construction in older buildings. When it gets damaged and flakes get into the air, those particles can cause lung damage if inhaled .

Today, asbestos can still be found within insulation and popcorn ceilings, hiding in walls only to be discovered during a home renovation or the replacement of a waterline. And when it is discovere… ...

Asbestos, which was once common in home insulation and other products, is banned in more than 50 countries, and its use in the U.S. has been declining for decades.

Asbestos fibers can get into the air when something disturbs their natural deposits in soil, rock, or older products. ‘Razor blade throat’: What to know about COVID variant with unpleasant symptom ...

Asbestos, which was once common in home insulation and other products, is banned in more than 50 countries, and its use in the U.S. has been declining for decades.

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