The last asbestos mines closed in Arizona during the early 1980s. The last asbestos mine to operate in the United States was the KCAC mine in San Benito County, California, which closed in 2002.

The U.S. EPA banned asbestos in brake pads in March 2024, but aftermarket brake pads made in other countries may still have asbestos.

The Cassiar asbestos mine in B.C. closed back in 1992, but decades later, the B.C. Mining Law Reform Network says it remains among the most polluted mine sites in the province.

The Cassiar asbestos mine in B.C. closed back in 1992, but decades later, the B.C. Mining Law Reform Network says it remains among the most polluted mine sites in the province. The mine recently ...

The former Cassiar asbestos mine is just south of the Yukon-B.C. border. Many residents and mine workers from Cassiar went on to have lethal lung issues.

Barretts Minerals OldCo, formerly Barretts Minerals Inc., filed for bankruptcy in a Texas. Now a judge is asking a District Court to examine the asbestos levels of of the mine near Dillon. (Photo ...

Of the 20 000 people who once lived in Wittenoom - an outback mining town in Western Australia - at least 1 000 are dead of asbestos-related diseases. Just about everyone else left long ago.

BILLINGS, Mont. — An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby mine has been abruptly shuttered by authorities following a ...

Libby's asbestos clinic shuttered after losing lawsuit to BNSF Railway A woman speaks to a Lincoln County Sheriff's Office deputy on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at the CARD Clinic in Libby.

Cleantech company hopes to open Québec asbestos mitigation plant by 2027. Montréal-based cleantech company Exterra has raised a $20-million Series A to turn mining waste into useful materials that it ...

Asbestos workers in the state of Louisiana who have been diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer or asbestos lung cancer may be eligible to file a lawsuit ...