A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit by plastic pipe maker JM Eagle against a U.S. law firm that filed hundreds ...

The Australian Government has been working since 2002 to reduce how much PFAS are used in Australia. It has banned the import ...

A Wigan woman is calling for there to be urgent funding to Asbestos research in memory of her dad. MPs and Lords held a ...

It showed that through its website alone, more than 22,000 asbestos-related jobs were carried out in the UK last year, up from 18,000 the year before. Asbestos is a naturally-occuring fibre which ...

IN 1960 Wagner, Sleggs and Marchand 1 reported 33 cases of diffuse pleural mesothelioma from the North Western Cape Province of South Africa. The collection of such a large number of cases of a ...

Officials said the businesses need to be demolished, but the presence of asbestos in the building’s structure raises the potential of air contamination. Asbestos is a building material known to ...

A self-employed roofing contractor has been ordered to undertake unpaid work after the uncontrolled spread of asbestos in a back garden, putting two young workers and local residents at risk. Doorbell ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Taking up an asbestos case this morning, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve whether military widows can hold companies liable under maritime law for products that they did ...

For much of the 19th and 20th century, the mining and use of asbestos saw near-constant growth, with virtually every material used in the construction of homes, offices, ships, road networks and ...

An Australian lifestyle blogger has ‘learnt her lesson’ after discovering this inside a farmhouse undergoing renovations.

The danger: asbestos. “I saw plastic being taped on the doors and walls and then the asbestos caution signs, and I knew this wasn't quite right,” Cervania, D-Wake, said. “And we weren't ...