A US federal report has raised concerns over the wet asbestos removal method that was trialled at a Fort Worth building in Texas with EPA approval in 2007. The report from the EPA Office of Inspector ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has allowed the use of unapproved methods to demolish buildings containing asbestos, threatening public health and possibly violating worker safety rules, the EPA’s ...

Yet another asbestos-removal hurdle has slowed the Joplin School District’s demolition of tornado-destroyed buildings. This time it involves the old South Middle School building in the 300 block of ...

In a Dec. 14 report, EPA Inspector General Arthur A. Elkins Jr. addressed EPA's authorization of unapproved methods of asbestos removal at its own sites. Elkins called for a halt to these unapproved ...

For decades, a laboratory procedure known as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to test for asbestos in samples taken at construction sites. In 1989, the U.S. Environmental ...