Q: I live in a 35-year-old house that has forced-air furnace pipes covered with asbestos. There are no breaks in the asbestos, but I wonder whether I could cover them (wearing a mask) with duct tape.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Every month, Deacon Perry Owens Sr. estimates he spends at least $100 on bottled water. He doesn’t drink the tap water from his Emerald Hills home. “It has a smell to it, a stench ...

PLYMOUTH – Select Board Vice Chairman John Mahoney is asking that the town manager’s office work with the Department of Public Works and union on drafting asbestos protocols that management and ...

SAN ANTONIO - Asbestos-containing pipes remain in widespread use throughout San Antonio, raising health concerns due to asbestos's known link to cancer when inhaled into the lungs. While the safety of ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in an April 25th Federal Register notice requests comment on an Alternative Work Practice (“AWP”) to: . . . use new technology and work ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — City workers were photographed handling asbestos pipes without respirators at least four times, documents uncovered by Team 10 reveal. The photos, obtained through a public records ...

BARTONVILLE — The mitigation of asbestos around steam pipes in a tunnel beneath old state hospital property is the latest obstacle that has further slowed the demolition of the Bowen Building and cost ...