Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person testing material for asbestos - Pvince73/Shutterstock When you're in your house, you expect to be safe. If your home was ...

Asbestos, once hailed as a miracle material for its fire-resistant properties, has become a significant health hazard in modern times. Understanding why professional asbestos removal is essential for ...

Q: The home inspector I hired never mentioned that the floor tiles and air duct insulation contain asbestos. Shouldn't he have pointed this out? A: Asbestos is generally regarded as “outside the scope ...

In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned the most common form of asbestos, a cancer-causing substance associated with tens of thousands of deaths in the country every year. The ban ...

If you want to cause homeowner anxiety, there's no better word to do it than "asbestos." Implicated in 5,000 U.S. deaths annually, it's nearly ubiquitous yet little understood in its threat. Here's a ...

If your home was built before the 1980s, it may have been built with asbestos. If inhaled, asbestos can cause cancer or other serious health problems, so you definitely want to be aware of it if you ...

If your home was built before the 1980s, it may have been built with asbestos. If inhaled, asbestos can cause cancer or other serious health problems, so you definitely want to be aware of it if you ...

The city will soon begin testing soil and dust at Tustin residents’ homes for any asbestos or lead emitted from the burnt north hangar at the Marine Corps Air Station, after previously focusing on ...

ANAMOSA — An eastern Iowa mobile home park demolished some of its homes without testing them for asbestos and did not dispose of them in a way to prevent asbestos exposure of its residents, according ...