Q. Our house has some kind of slate siding, and we've been told that it contains asbestos fibers. Would it be possible to wrap this siding with wire netting and cover the house with stucco, or does ...

Q: We're about to buy an old house that has asbestos siding and are unsure about whether to proceed with the purchase. We have two children and are very concerned about health hazards. What can you ...

Rose gardens, tennis courts, apartments, a YMCA and a newspaper office sit today on a tract of land that once housed thousands of World War II servicemen and prisoners of war. The government housing ...

The Department of Energy and its regulators have agreed to restrict the use of heavy equipment to demolish buildings that still have asbestos out of concern for worker health. The agreement, signed ...

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 ...

QDEAR BARRY: We are buying an old house and were told by our home inspector that the tile siding probably contains asbestos. Neither the sellers nor their agent have provided any documentation to ...

Sampling to check for asbestos has been completed at Hanford with none detected at levels believed to affect worker health, according to the Department of Energy. "The data reviewed for this ...

City officials are analyzing historical records while they wait for the results of tests that will show whether there are dangerous levels of airborne asbestos at Briarfield Park and Copeland ...

BERRY CREEK — The California Department of Toxic Substances Control began assessments Monday of residential properties destroyed in the North Complex fires. The department is assessing and removing ...

Extensive tests done on samples of air taken at Briarfield Park in Hampton do not show the presence of asbestos. The tests indicate that there is no current health risk at Briarfield Park, said Dr. R.