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.

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 ...

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 ...

Historically, the greatest contributions to airborne asbestos concentrations during brake repair work were likely due to specific, short-duration, dust-generating activities. In this paper, the ...

As the fire at a Richmond plastics recycling facility continues to smolder, initial testing shows the blaze has sent toxic substances into the air. Sampling has found that debris from the fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

VINELAND — The days are numbered for the oldest electrical generating station in the city’s energy portfolio, but what company ends up demolishing it apparently will be decided in state court. The ...

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 ...

Air sampling of Lahaina and Kula by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in late August showed no evidence of poor air quality nor any hazardous levels of contaminants in the air, according to the ...

EAST ROCKHILL — Work is planned at Sellersville Elementary School this summer to remove floor and ceiling tiles containing asbestos. Sargent Enterprises, of Jim Thorpe, with a $75,000 bid, was the ...