Q. My home was built in 1926 and has asbestos insulation on all the hot water pipes under the building. Fortunately, all of this asbestos has been wrapped. When I first learned about it, I was ...

Q–In our 60-year-old house the basement pipes are covered with asbestos and over this is a plaster covering. The plaster has disintegrated in various places and is hanging down, exposing the asbestos.

Q. How do you feel about asbestos – leave it alone or get rid of it? Our basement has vinyl asbestos floor tile and pipe insulation with asbestos. Both are in good condition. A. How do I feel? I think ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Classes are canceled at two more Philadelphia schools due to asbestos concerns. The School District of Philadelphia has closed Carnell Elementary School in Oxford Circle and ...

I was under the impression that the owner of a single family home is allowed to remove a certain amount of asbestos pipe insulation, like 25′. I can’t find anything at nyc.gov to confirm or deny.

The Flatiron steam pipe explosion that sent debris and asbestos spewing from the ground has officials taking no chances. Con Edison says much of its 104-mile network of steam pipes is coated with ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Every month, Deacon Perry Owens Sr. estimates he spends at least $100 on bottled water. He doesn’t drink the tap water from his Emerald Hills home. “It has a smell to it, a stench ...

The steam pipe that exploded on Tuesday is old and is lined with a cancer-causing material, the 11 News I-Team has discovered.The steam pipe is believed to be 40 to 50 years old and lined with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MANHATTAN — The site of a steam pipe ...

Large, aging asbestos pipes have been left sitting on the ground in an open lot next to the badly polluted New River in Calexico near the Mexico border seven months after they were discovered by a ...