NY cleans up after asbestos-tainted blast
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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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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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The New Zealand city of Gisborne cleans up after a powerful earthquake damaged buildings and roads.
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The lung disease that killed a police detective who toiled for weeks at ground zero was caused by injecting ground-up pills, not by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, the city medical examiner's office confirmed Thursday.
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CARNEGIE, Pa. - John Ferri rushed feverishly around his mud-soaked monument business over the weekend, cleaning off the granite gravestones with window cleaner and carrying out boxes of trash...
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A major investigation is underway in New Caledonia to find out where asbestos, blamed for an unusually high rate of lung cancer on the French Pacific island territory, occurs in the environment.
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By Brittany Davis brittany.davis@roanoke.com 381-1679  BLACKSBURG -- As Beth Yost kneeled on a stool and sawed at a small mint-green stone, a mist of white dust hung in the air.
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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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A small clinic that handled the cases of thousands of 9/11 recovery and cleanup workers is coming under scrutiny.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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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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By SARAH ANTONACCI STAFF WRITER  The explosion at the Illiopolis Formosa Plastics plant that killed five workers almost three years ago might have been prevented if the facility's owners had strengthened safety protections, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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New York officially links a death to the toxic dust caused by the World Trade Center's collapse on 9/11.
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Friends and relatives of patients at several homes throughout New York City said that there was not yet cause for great concern.
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Ron Gospodarski has made a career  cleaning up after other people -- their blood, brain matter and  body parts.
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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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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.