Federal officials sent a crew to dismantle a 120-foot-tall smokestack at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park.

The Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider a Biden administration ban on the last type of asbestos used in the ...

EPA asbestos ban will be reconsidered by the agency, potentially leaving thousands at risk of mesothelioma and other diseases ...

For years after the ban, W.R. Grace's Monokote contained 1% asbestos after the company lobbied the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set its asbestos threshold at 1% in what became known as ...

Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. In a brief filed in October on behalf of a group of car companies called the ...

In March the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was banning ongoing uses of asbestos. People might have thought, Wait—what? Wasn’t it already banned? After all, many ...

In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned the most common form of asbestos, a cancer-causing substance associated with tens of thousands of deaths in the country every year.

A close-up of asbestos, a mineral with known links to fatal health conditions. This week the Environmental Protection Agency announced a ban on the use of chrysotile asbestos, the most common form ...

News of a new rule set by the Environmental Protection Agency regarding asbestos was enough to bring her to tears. Reinstein is president and co-founder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness ...

A new rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency this week puts an end to the use of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in the United States. But researchers caution that we’ll likely ...