The number of homeowners getting asbestos removed has jumped over the past year, according to Checkatrade. The online directory said demand for asbestos removal services surged by 21 per cent in 2024, ...

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 ...

Asbestos isn’t just one substance – it’s the name given to a group of minerals characterised by long, thin fibres. Asbestos is found naturally in rocks and has been used for centuries. At first ...

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 ...

Even if you’re not fussed about the health risks of asbestos (and you should be), you might want to know about the new legal ones. Property owners’ legal responsibilities All property owners in ...

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 ...

Tarentum plans to hire a contractor to test more than two dozen buildings for asbestos. The 28 buildings are among the 33 now on the borough’s demolition list. Three companies submitted bids for the ...

A Housing Trust tenant, who paid for a test to confirm his suspicions there was loose dust containing asbestos in a meter box near his property, has had the cost refunded after a lengthy battle with ...

SEABROOK — The head of maintenance at Seabrook School expects to conduct a full investigation into possible asbestos at Seabrook Elementary School while the building is closed for spring break.