The city plans to use the $350,000 grant to address lead-based paint, asbestos and radon within some of the city’s licensed in-home day care centers.

The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency is slated to visit Indianapolis Tuesday. In a post ...

Chrysotile asbestos was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, broadened in 2016. The AP reported "the Biden ...

Chrysotile asbestos is found in products such as brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016. The Biden ...

According to newly released court filings, the EPA is 'reconsidering' a 2024 ban on the last legal form of asbestos still used in the U.S.

The guidelines allow EPA to exclude legacy sources of exposure from consideration—for example, asbestos installed into the frames of schools and older buildings using outdated production methods.

In 1989, the EPA blocked most uses of asbestos under the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA. But after the asbestos industry challenged the regulation, a federal appeals court overturned the ...

The EPA banned asbestos in 1989, but the rule was largely overturned by a 1991 court decision that weakened the EPA’s authority under the TSCA to address risks to human health from asbestos or ...

Each year, asbestos is linked to more than 40,000 cancer deaths nationwide, the agency said, and its use is already banned in more than 50 countries around the world. The EPA said it has set ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills ...

More than 30 years after the Environmental Protection Agency first tried to ban asbestos — and failed under court challenge — the agency is trying again. Industry is still fighting it.

The EPA has banned some uses for asbestos, like spray-on insulation, but a ban on most products that contain asbestos proposed in 1989 was later overturned by a federal appeals court.