In the spring of 2005, Georgia-Pacific Corp. found itself facing nearly $1 billion in liability from a product it hadn’t made in nearly three decades: a putty-like building material, known as joint ...

OTSEGO, MI – The former owner of the Rock-Tenn paper mill site has been charged in a five-count indictment accusing him of violating the federal Clean Air Act. The indictment, which was filed Friday ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - How can you tell if a house still has or once had asbestos? The only reliable way to know if your home contains asbestos is to hire an environmental consulting firm or asbestos ...

Woman saves herself, stabs man with glass shard during Battle Creek break-in Two women are safe after one of the pair stabbed a man in the stomach during a break-in early Saturday, according to Battle ...

If you want to cause homeowner anxiety, there's no better word to do it than "asbestos." Implicated in 5,000 U.S. deaths annually, it's nearly ubiquitous yet little understood in its threat. Here's a ...

Daniel Stupino with his wife, Anna, daughter Dana and son Daniel. Stupino died last year of mesothelioma, a cancer almost always linked to asbestos exposure. He blamed his illness on exposure to ...