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The New York City Department of Education released a statement earlier this month that informed concerned parents and staff members that a project designed to make the schools a safer and healthier place to work and learn would have to be put on hold due to the discovery of asbestos.
The Department of Education had planned [...]

Stanley Xu, owner and CEO of a Washington based real estate firm, Longwell Company, has been cited and fined for violating asbestos regulations by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries.  The latest violation involves the removal of asbestos containing ceiling material from an apartment complex in Renton and Kent, Washington, near Seattle.  The [...]

Sometimes the cost of renovating an older building is more prohibitive than tearing it down and starting over due to the high cost of bringing the building up to code.  Many older buildings were constructed with toxic materials, such as asbestos and lead.   Exposure to asbestos has been clearly linked with diseases such as mesothelioma, [...]

As a common building material used throughout the first half of the century, asbestos can be found in many old or historical buildings.  You may find asbestos in a home, skyscraper, or even sporting arena that was built before the 1970s.
One such building is the world-famous home of the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, [...]

It is most often the case that exposure to asbestos occurs occupationally. That is, you or a loved one worked in an industry of field where asbestos was present. Typically, these include industrial trades such as insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, etc.
Other industries such as vehicle mechanics, construction workers, painters, sheetrock workers and their ilk also routinely [...]

Knowing what materials in your home contain asbestos can protect you against unwanted exposure and help avoid developing serious diseases, such as mesothelioma, years later.
Exposure to asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral fiber, may cause one or more serious diseases including: Asbestosis, Lung Cancer, and Mesothelioma.  Asbestos is also thought to cause cancers of the esophagus, [...]

Due to the outcry of parents, another school, Leonia in Northern New Jersey, has decided to postpone any construction that would involve the removal of asbestos until school is dismissed for the summer.  Parents expressed concern over the health of their children, not wanting them to be at any risk of later developing mesothelioma or [...]

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was commonly used in many building materials, including floor tiles and mastic, which is the adhesive used to apply the floor tiles.  Use of asbestos started to become regulated in 1972 after it was clearly established and widely acknowledged that exposure to asbestos causes serious illnesses, such as [...]

James Robert Soyars, Jr. was indicted last week for violations of the Clean Air Act, specifically on nine counts that included failure to put warning labels and dispose of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) properly.  Soyars’s company, Talon Environmental, supposedly removed the asbestos after being hired to perform asbestos abatement at three different local businesses that [...]

Oak Cliff Christian Church in Dallas, Texas is being cleared of all asbestos containing materials to make way for demolition of a building more than a hundred years old.  The building site was bought last summer by the Dallas School District with plans to construct a new high school. 
Although the Church building is over a [...]