The School District of Philadelphia’s handling of asbestos in some schools was supposed to be the focus of the school board’s ...

Philadelphia’s Board of Education did not vote Thursday on an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice over the school ...

The agency’s ban targets chrysotile asbestos, also known as “white asbestos,” the only one of the six forms of the mineral still being used in the United States. Resistant to heat and fire, ...

Though the EPA banned most forms of asbestos decades ago, the use of chrysotile asbestos, or “white asbestos,” has persisted after a federal judge in 1991 blocked the EPA from including the ...

The Canadian government had argued that the ban ran counter to French commitments on free trade and that the white asbestos that was now being mined was not dangerous if used correctly. But the WTO ...