Asbestos was used in building materials until it was discovered that inhalation of fibres could cause cancers.

Photo from Unsplash Although asbestos was once popularly used for its durability and heat resistance, it is now recognized as ...

‘Whiteout’ Phil Venoit’s big encounter with asbestos came early in his career. It was the early 1980s, a time when the dangers of asbestos were recognized but not well understood.

Because asbestos is no longer used for the many purposes it was in the past, including insulation, building materials and machinery components, some may consider it strictly a hazard of the past.

In Indonesia, activists who recently won a court ruling requiring mandatory labelling on asbestos products are now being sued ...

Larry Campbell writes, The Sheep Creek mine project at the head of the West Fork could hardly be in a riskier place.

Their attorneys said BNSF should have known about the dangers because Grace put signs on rail cars carrying vermiculite warning of potential health risks. They showed jurors an image of a warning ...

Australian-backed Indonesian consumer activists who won a landmark legal bid to enforce mandatory warning labels on white ...

A jury acquitted them following a 2009 trial. How much W.R. Grace revealed about the asbestos dangers to Texas-based BNSF and its corporate predecessors has been sharply disputed.