Last week’s column, "Asbestos Could Have Saved WTC Lives," produced tremendous and polarized reader response. Most readers appreciated the article for pointing out that overreaction to the health ...

Over the last century, as the WWII war effort required large quantities of affordable materials to produce military equipment, the United States military overly used asbestos. The mineral was abundant ...

During the last century, asbestos use was prevalent in the U.S. military, particularly during World War II, when the war effort demanded materials at accessible prices for producing equipment quickly ...

The scare-mongering over the National Broadband Network asbestos bungle is scandalous. Broadcasters and politicians should be reassuring the public with the facts, but are making people sick with fear ...