New regulations to protect workers from asbestos exposure will come into effect in Manitoba this fall, and officials with the ...

The about-face came after a public outcry over plans to reconsider Biden-era restrictions on the carcinogenic material.

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S.

Cleanup crews contracted by the Army Corp of Engineers dumped asbestos-tainted wildfire debris in landfills that they shouldn ...

As reported in our June 28, 2025, blog item, on June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a motion ...

"It just takes one asbestos fibre inhaled to be fatal. It is now time our government did more to get this awful stuff out of our kids' schools." Wigan Council says that it has bee ...

A bonfire on a site that contains asbestos was set alight despite warnings over the dangers of doing so. Northern Ireland's ...

Manitoba expects to mandate standards for working with asbestos, the cause of the majority of workplace deaths in the province, this fall. Labour Minister Malaya Marcelino said members of the ...

The roof of one of the Black Country's most important historical industrial buildings, planners have been told.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection also found that Smallwood Inc. demolished the building without taking proper ...

Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said he is disappointed that an Eleventh night bonfire was lit in south Belfast despite ...