Large, aging asbestos pipes have been left sitting on the ground in an open lot next to the badly polluted New River in Calexico near the Mexico border seven months after they were discovered by a ...

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 ...

Forty-four of the nearly 50 buildings evacuated after an asbestos-lined, 86-year-old steam pipe exploded in the heart of the Flatiron District Thursday remain off limits as officials thoroughly assess ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Residents and workers from 49 buildings near the site of an early-morning steam pipe explosion in Manhattan were evacuated, many for at least two days, on Thursday after ...

NEW YORK — Authorities detected asbestos in steam pouring from the pipe that ruptured in Manhattan’s Flatiron district Thursday, raising concerns about a substance that can cause severe health ...

An asbestos-lined, 86-year-old steam pipe exploded in the heart of the Flatiron District Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than four dozen buildings amid "real concern" carcinogenic debris ...

Asbestos-laced cloth will be isolated from the ventilation system at one of the city’s biggest bus depots, the Daily News has learned. Contractors on Friday will begin encapsulating the cloth, a ...