Q: We bought our house about eight months ago and just learned that we have asbestos insulation on the air ducts in our attic. The sellers must have known about it because they purchased a new forced ...

Old walls hold secrets that stop contractors cold — here's what's really in there.

I receive a lot of questions from home buyers about asbestos. Will we identify the presence of asbestos? Can we test for asbestos? Does this or that material contain asbestos? And so on. During one of ...

A landmark study into the health impacts of living in a house with loose-fill asbestos insulation. A landmark study from The Australian National University (ANU) into the health impacts of living in a ...

An ACT Government taskforce has been set up to act as a central point of contact for Canberrans affected by Mr Fluffy loose-fill asbestos insulation. More than 1,000 Canberra homes are thought to ...

The Flatiron steam pipe explosion that sent debris and asbestos spewing from the ground has officials taking no chances. Con Edison says much of its 104-mile network of steam pipes is coated with ...

Q:I just found out that my 1943 house has insulation in the walls - I'm assuming it's asbestos. I can't afford to tear out my walls. What can I do? Are the cancerous fibers getting into the air ...

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a nearly complete ban on the manufacturing and importing of asbestos. The rule will close loopholes in a decades-old partial ban, and EPA is ...