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

Cancer-causing asbestos has been regulated for decades and removed from buildings. Trump could allow one form to return - ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in ...

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

The Trump administration will reconsider a Biden-era regulation that aims to ban or phase out ongoing uses of asbestos, revealing its plans about the rule in a court filing Monday. The filing did ...

White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials ... installation of new asbestos-containing sheet gaskets in chemical manufacturing and other facilities.

Chrysotile asbestos is found in products like brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016. When the ban ...