The Renaissance Center has a history of asbestos, and tearing down two of the skyscrapers could prove challenging and costly, ...

Residents of the Manning Valley in NSW are raising concerns about plans to extract serpentine ore, risking the release of asbestos dust.

KUALA LUMPUR: A phase-down approach is being considered to stop the use of chrysotile or white asbestos, says the Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Ministry. Minister Nik Nazmi ...

Workers in chemical plants, along with communities near such facilities, will have to wait longer for regulations that aim to reduce cancer and other health risks associated with widely used ...

A LOCAL waste and pollution watchdog has expressed support for the inclusion of several industrial chemicals and pesticides in two global treaties that count on the Philippines among the state parties ...

Quezon City.  To protect human and environmental health, the EcoWaste Coalition, a participating organization of the ...

The president has backed RFK Jr.’s goal to clamp down on chemical exposures, but he has stocked EPA with industry-linked deregulatory champions. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the nation ...

IN 1960 Wagner, Sleggs and Marchand 1 reported 33 cases of diffuse pleural mesothelioma from the North Western Cape Province of South Africa. The collection of such a large number of cases of a ...