The new regulations, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999, will prohibit the import, sale and use of asbestos, the manufacture, import, sale and use of products containing asbestos, as ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United ...

ASBESTOS, Quebec (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned for votes in Quebec on Tuesday and defended one of the province's most controversial exports - asbestos. Health and ...

LONDON - A medical journal is criticizing Canada for exporting asbestos to poor countries, joining others that have condemned the practice as hypocritical. A report in the journal Lancet on Thursday ...

For decades Johnson and Johnson covered up the fact that their talcum powder was contaminated with asbestos and was allegedly ...

A judge granted U.S. recognition to the Canadian bankruptcy proceedings of a former Quebec asbestos miner, overruling ...

BOSTON — A Marion environmental services company and its owners have been indicted on 98 counts in connection with worker safety violations and illegal asbestos work in New Bedford, Fall River, ...

LYNNWOOD — A Lynnwood asbestos removal contractor is facing nearly $800,000 in fines for repeatedly exposing workers and homeowners to hazardous conditions at local job sites. The state Department of ...