The EPA under President Trump says it will review a Biden-era ban on chrysotile asbestos, the last form still legally used in ...

People can be exposed to asbestos mainly if they are part of the automotive or construction industry. The mineral is widely ...

Former President Joe Biden's administration banned "ongoing uses" of the last form of asbestos permitted in the United States.

A few weeks ago, I went to the zoo. Walking through the amphibian exhibit, I saw girls huddled and bouncing in front of one ...

Exposure to asbestos is linked to more than 40,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to the Biden administration's EPA.

Last year, the Biden administration banned chrysotile asbestos, which the EPA called a milestone in the fight against cancer.

White asbestos is still used in some roofing materials, textiles, cement and is found in brake pads and other automotive parts. It is also sometimes used to make chlorine. Its usage continues despite ...

Objectives: This report provides an update of the mortality experience of a cohort of South Carolina asbestos textile workers. Methods: A cohort of 3072 workers exposed to chrysotile in a South ...

Background Asbestos has been hypothesised as the cause of the recent global increase in the incidence of ‘idiopathic’ pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Establishing this has important diagnostic and ...

The Cassiar asbestos mine in B.C. closed back in 1992, but decades later, the B.C. Mining Law Reform Network says it remains among the most polluted mine sites in the province.

Cassiar asbestos mine, near Yukon-B.C. border, one of ... that exposure to longer fibres actually increases the risk of lung cancer — although both long and short chrysotile asbestos fibres are ...