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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A suspicious white powder was found in a New York building occupied by the Daily News newspaper and the Associated Press on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
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Hundreds of people who worked on the World Trade Center cleanup have filed a class-action lawsuit against the leaseholder of the towers and those who supervised the job, alleging they did little to protect workers from dust, asbestos and other toxins in the air.
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Bodies were still being recovered a week after Thailand's tidal wave disaster, as the clean-up moved into full speed in some of the devastated resort areas.
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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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Utilities in New York restored electric service to more than 20,000 customers in the northern part of the state on Wednesday after a fast-moving wind storm interrupted power to more than 100,000 customers throughout the day, companies said.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 30--LIBBY, Mont. -- After finishing a shift at the vermiculite mine, Les Skramstad would come home covered in the white dust of asbestos.   He'd find the dust in deep recesses of his wallet.
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER  NEW YORK - The former Environmental Protection Agency chief should not be blamed for telling residents near the World Trade Center site that the area was safe after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the government told an appeals court Thursday.
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About 70 percent of the rescue workers   who picked through the toxic debris of the World Trade Center   after the September 11 attacks suffered respiratory problems, a   study released on Tuesday said.
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A New York woman has been added to the number of victims killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, in the first confirmed death from dust generated by the collapse of the twin towers.
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DANVERS, Mass. - Chemical vapor that accumulated inside a paint and ink factory fueled the huge explosion that leveled the building and damaging dozens of surrounding homes last fall, according to a preliminary conclusion by federal investigators.
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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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W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said.
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Some New Yorkers doubted official assurances on Thursday that the air surrounding a deadly steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan was safe to breathe despite the discovery of asbestos-tainted debris.
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NEW YORK  - After asbestos exposure, men are more likely than women to develop malignant mesothelioma, according to an Australian study.
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Egyptian authorities began cleaning up what remains of a 1,500-ton oil slick caused by a tanker collision in the Mediterranean on Monday, an Environment Ministry spokesman said.
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.