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 ...

HELENA — Federal mine safety regulators fell short over the years in ensuring worker safety at a vermiculite mine in Libby, but probably couldn't have done much more to prevent asbestos-related deaths ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 court ...

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 ...

MSHA published a final rule raising protections for miners exposed to asbestos at metal, nonmetal and underground coal mines, stipulating it will reduce the asbestos exposure limit by 95 percent. The ...

Town in the state’s Pilbara region was the site of three blue asbestos mines and has been described as ‘the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere’ Follow our Australia news live blog ...

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 ...