PORT NECHES, Texas — The Port Neches Response team released asbestos air monitoring results Saturday, 24 hours after lifting an evacuation order following the TCP plant explosion and ongoing fires.

With naturally occurring asbestos present where a portion of Interstate 11 is being built, special care is being taken to protect workers and nearby residents. Major portions of the project south of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Over the next two weeks, lead, asbestos and silica sample testing will be conducted at North Park Montessori School, closed in February for potential asbestos exposure during a ...

For decades, thousands of transit employees — and dozens of high school students — may have been exposed to asbestos at the MTA’s East New York bus depot in Brooklyn. Nearly all the vents that pump ...

Orange County health officials said the main concern for asbestos exposure from the now-burnt blimp hangar was from debris chunks containing the hazardous material, and that asbestos in the air played ...

Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...

The 2008 Johnson Conference: Critical Issues in Monitoring Asbestos will be held July 14-18, 2008, at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Sponsored by ASTM International Committee D22 on Air ...

State environmental regulators monitoring the remnants of the North Portland warehouse fire say air samples show no detections of asbestos fibers requiring further action. "The cleanup and ...

The city will soon begin testing soil and dust at Tustin residents’ homes for any asbestos or lead emitted from the burnt north hangar at the Marine Corps Air Station, after previously focusing on ...

In 1971, I did my very first asbestos inspection and air sampling. I had lectured to my environmental geology class about asbestos hazards and one student who had just inherited a factory asked if the ...

Mining companies in northern Minnesota could face penalties and dust-control mandates under a new federal regulation that sharply limits asbestos in workplace air. Under a regulation issued Feb. 29, ...