Asbestos feels like a problem from another era, yet it still lingers quietly inside many older Pennsylvania buildings. When ...

Bolivian crocidolite was used in approximately 13 billion Kent Micronite cigarette filters, manufactured from March 1952 ...

BLOOMINGTON - Ron Thacker only worked at Bloomington’s UNARCO plant for a couple of years as a young man in the early 1950s, but it left an indelible imprint on his life — and his lungs. Thacker, now ...

Most of us know asbestos as ‘that puffy stuff it cost a fortune to take out of the walls of public schools.’ Yes, it’s annoyingly toxic, but this substance also has a long and sometimes bizarre ...

Asbestos-containing vermiculite from the Grace mine was used as insulation in millions of houses across the U.S. In Libby, contaminated waste from the mine was unwittingly used by many residents as a ...

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 ...

This diagram highlights common places asbestos can hide in the home. Asbestos.com editor Walter Pacheco said those most likely to be exposed to asbestos are people doing do-it-yourself home ...

A Ramsey County jury found Johnson & Johnson products exposed her to asbestos and caused her to develop mesothelioma.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. | Ron Thacker only worked at Bloomington's UNARCO plant for a couple of years as a young man in the early 1950s, but it left an indelible imprint on his life — and his lungs.