The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule to prohibit ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos, the first rule to be finalized under prior amendments in the Toxic Substances Control Act.

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Associate Professor Terri-Ann Berry has found that airborne asbestos fibres can be released from samples of children’s play sand previously sold in New Zealand. The researchers found tremolite and ...

India has once again opposed the listing of Chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous substance under the Rotterdam convention at the Conference of Parties (COP) that concluded in Geneva on Friday.

Chrysotile asbestos will remain off a list of the world's most dangerous substances, delegates to an international meeting in Rome decided Tuesday. The week-long Rotterdam Convention is looking at ...

After three decades of attempts, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned the only form of asbestos still in use — part of a family of toxic minerals linked to lung cancer and other illnesses ...

An Indian delegation led by environment secretary Ajay Narayan Jha is in Geneva to negotiate some of the most important environmental treaties dealing with trade in hazardous chemicals and waste.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a ban on the only type of asbestos still used in the US, chrysotile asbestos. This move was decades in the making. Chrysotile asbestos, aka ...

April 5 (UPI) --The White House said on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency will announce new rules prohibiting the use and manufacturing of chrysotile asbestos, which has been tied to ...

Chrysotile, a type of asbestos, is thought to be from Daler-Rowney factory's roof in Bracknell.

OTTAWA–Chrysotile asbestos is not being added to a list of dangerous substances after a lack of consensus at an international meeting in Rome this week, according to the federal Natural Resources ...

Despite intense lobbying by the chemical industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency is set to address the cancer risks posed by all current uses of chrysotile asbestos. In a final assessment ...