NY cleans up after asbestos-tainted explosion
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Workers cleaned asbestos-tainted debris on Thursday from an explosion of a steam pipe that rocked Manhattan as some New Yorkers questioned official reassurances that the air was safe to breathe.
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By Bloomberg News. WR Grace &amp; Company, a producer of chemicals and building material that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001 amid thousands of asbestos-related claims, said yesterday
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The area near Wednesdayâs steam pipe explosion regained a bit of its bustle Saturday, as city officials reopened some streets and cleanup continued.
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Officials shifted their focus from rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship split apart two
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--APEX -- Town police evacuated several units at a townhouse subdivision Thursday after an officer responding to a complaint found explosive materials in an apartment.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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The New Zealand city of Gisborne cleans up after a powerful earthquake damaged buildings and roads.
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A new congressional report says the Environmental Protection Agency potentially exposed scores of residents, volunteers and workers to asbestos fibers by not doing more to monitor the contaminant in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina.
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The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
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Debris from an explosion of an aging steam pipe in midtown Manhattan contained asbestos, New York authorities said on Thursday, but no airborne samples of the dangerous mineral fiber were detected.
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A New York police detective died of lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical examiner said on Thursday.
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Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A titanium maker and its owner were charged with illegally storing more than 11 tons of corrosive hazardous waste, creating a mess that a prosecutor compared to a horror movie scene.
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By Marcelle S. Fischler THE NEW YORK TIMES  Felicia Busto-Fraim always kept her Flushing, N.Y., home clean with traditional brand-name cleaning products such as Windex and Fantastik.
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Police last night cleared a Gold Coast apartment building of explosive devices, following a 17-hour stand-off with police. A 43-year-old man from Coombabah on the Gold Coast has been charged over the incident.
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The company said it had worked with health officials to clean and re-stock the affected restaurants.
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Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center found that almost 70 percent of workers who helped with the cleanup suffered new or worsened respiratory symptoms.