Q–In our 60-year-old house the basement pipes are covered with asbestos and over this is a plaster covering. The plaster has disintegrated in various places and is hanging down, exposing the asbestos.

Q: We need to re-wrap the heat pipes in our basement. They have old asbestos (-based?) wrap on them. I was told that you could encapsulate the pipes using Future Floor Wax to keep the asbestos dust ...

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 ...

Construction crews working on the project to rebuild East River Park have paused demolition on the park’s amphitheater after discovering asbestos at the site. City officials said the asbestos is ...

Asbestos was recently discovered and will soon be removed from a crawl space in the basement of the Yellow Brick Building, home to a number of daycare programs. According to Aspen Environmental Health ...

I recently received a note from someone who lives in an old farm house in Hocking County. He writes that seams in pipes snaking from an old furnace in the cellar are wrapped with "old white, ...

Westminster has had three projects in three years to remove asbestos from municipal buildings, and is starting a fourth. The $14,287 contract to remove asbestos from the newly acquired Longwell ...

An asbestos cleanup job at a Bronx middle school just squeaked in before the start of the school year, but angry school officials say contractors left a big mess behind. “We have exposed plumbing ...

The Northampton Area School District yesterday hired the Areco Co. of Jim Thorpe to remove asbestos from the basement of the Central Building during the next two weekends. District Superintendent ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Parents and teachers are outraged after asbestos is found in another Philadelphia school and they are demanding answers. The school district says asbestos was found in pipe ...