OTSEGO, MI – The former owner of the Rock-Tenn paper mill site has been charged in a five-count indictment accusing him of violating the federal Clean Air Act. The indictment, which was filed Friday ...

Daniel Stupino with his wife, Anna, daughter Dana and son Daniel. Stupino died last year of mesothelioma, a cancer almost always linked to asbestos exposure. He blamed his illness on exposure to ...

NORRISTOWN – Remediation and demolition work at a former 12.88-acre industrial site off Washington Street, downstream from the Norristown Sewage Treatment plant, is expected to be completed by this ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a final ban on chrysotile asbestos, the last remaining type of asbestos currently used in or imported to the U.S. The asbestos ban is part of ...

If you want to cause homeowner anxiety, there's no better word to do it than "asbestos." Implicated in 5,000 U.S. deaths annually, it's nearly ubiquitous yet little understood in its threat. Here's a ...

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In the spring of 2005, Georgia-Pacific Corp. found itself facing nearly $1 billion in liability from a product it hadn’t made in nearly three decades: a putty-like building material, known as joint ...