Asbestos Monitoring Fell Post-Katrina
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - 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 National Rifle Association has hired private investigators to find hundreds of people whose firearms were seized by city police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers filed this week.
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Production at several alumina refineries in Jamaica has been reduced and shipments slowed due to damage caused by Hurricane Ivan, which battered the island over the weekend, several companies said Tuesday.
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Service was restored Monday for residents of a Louisiana city where Tropical Storm Matthew broke a water main, but residents of some coastal areas were still waiting for a wind shift to push high water back out to sea.
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were a roughly $100 billion blow to Louisiana buildings and infrastructure, and federal rebuilding aid and insurance payments fall about $34 billion short of making up for the losses, a state agency says.
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NEW ORLEANS Five offshore oil rigs were set adrift in the Gulf of Mexico and three others were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Coast Guard says it received a report from Diamond Offshore that a 335-foot semi
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A U.S. Senate plan to create a $140  billion asbestos compensation fund has hit further snags over  ways to stop victims being paid twice and sagging support among  members of the Republican majority, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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By Vicki L. Friedman, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 12--SUFFOLK -- Andrew Cospelich packed a few bags a year ago for a trip to Alabama, never dreaming it would be the last time he would set foot in his house.   But home was Gulfport, Miss., devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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By Matt Garfield, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 16--The collapse of the textile industry left behind more than a legacy of job losses and poverty in center-city Rock Hill.
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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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Part of the gray stone facade at the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island fell to the ground last month, seemingly a matter of gravity picking up where negligence left off.
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LANSING -- People who stripped minerals at a plant in Dearborn between the early 1950s and 1990 were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos, according to a public health consultation released Tuesday by state and federal officials.
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High levels of asbestos, lead and other contaminants have been found in a vacant skyscraper badly damaged during the 2001 terror attacks, potentially complicating the rebuilding of ground zero.
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An official says the fire inspector who failed to detect flammable soundproofing foam blamed for a deadly Rhode Island nightclub fire in 2003 has retired.
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Shares in James Hardie Industries have fallen sharply after the embattled building products group posted a 17 percent fall in net profit blamed on the costs of an inquiry into its handling of compensation claims by asbestos victims.
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Dozens of homes and businesses looked like they were shredded by "high explosives," Lt. Gov. Bill Halter said Sunday as he surveyed the damage a day after a powerful storm injured 40 people.
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PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi  - When hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.