LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Blowing dust is a major concern for neighbors in Las Vegas. The cleanup of the old Three Kids Mine and the asbestos and toxic metals there is well underway. After years of ...

MONTPELIER -- The Vermont Health Department has agreed to further investigate the possible health risks of a closed asbestos mine, following criticism over an earlier report that erroneously found a ...

Canadian company Exterra Carbon Solutions has launched a project to transform waste from the world's largest asbestos mine into electric vehicle battery materials. As Interesting Engineering reported, ...

For decades, Libby residents have lived with the deadly aftermath of asbestos exposure from a closed vermiculite mine. It ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened.... Near old Montana mine, special clinic for ...

The proposed Sheep Creek rare earth mine at the head of the West Fork Bitterroot River presents many environmental and economic problems. One in particular deserves early attention. The mineral ...

Deadline to secure financing extended to Oct 1 Quebec could guarantee C$58 million loan Opponents urge government to halt asbestos exports TORONTO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - One of Canada's last remaining ...

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 ...

Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into a Superfund site. Libby’s tremolite asbestos lurked in the shadows for decades until ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- A federal judge has dismissed part of a criminal charge against W.R. Grace & Co. and some former top officials that alleged they knowingly endangered miners and area residents ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - One of Canada's last remaining asbestos mines was thrown another lifeline on Monday, as the Quebec provincial government extended its deadline for a consortium of investors to ...