A recent report has found that the New York City Department of Education has not met requirements to inspect the vast majority of schools identified with asbestos. Comptroller Brad Lander unveiled an ...

The discovery of asbestos in the office suite in December led the campus to further investigate asbestos in the building, which was built in 1953. UM first closed a preschool in McGill on Jan. 29 and ...

The city’s Department of Education failed to inspect 82% of the city’s schools containing asbestos over a three-year period, Comptroller Brad Lander said in an audit published this week. The report ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Philadelphia's public schools with failing to properly inspect eight schools for damaged asbestos. The district agreed to have the criminal case ...

Reason reported in October that the federal government owns millions of square feet of unused office space. Watchdog agencies have long recommended that the government sell off some of its unused real ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Daily Telegraph can reveal there were only 158 ­asbestos inspections in 2018-19 compared with 843 in 2017-18 ...

Asbestos is a class of minerals that can be used to create durable materials that are heat-, fire- and chemical-resistant.

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Even if the Canadian government were to ban all asbestos use tomorrow, this country will be dealing with the legacy of its love affair with the deadly mineral for decades, perhaps centuries, to come.