asbestos

I just signed a lease for an apartment. The contract included disclaimers about potential lead paint and asbestos--this is a newly rehabbed old building. I just signed the lease but wish I had asked if those disclaimers could be removed (of course they said it was highly unlikely that the...

This has got to be one of the more doofus claims of conspiracy theorists but still I hear about it all the time -- that one of the motives for the "demolition" of the WTC was because of unfixable asbestos problems. 911myths.com shows an article estimating the removal costs at about $200...

From editorial by Steve Milloy... Herbert Levine, a fireproofing inventor, reportedly said "If a fire breaks out above the 64th floor, [the WTC] will collapse" after his fireproofing was banned due to reports of danger from the asbestos it was based on. Because of this, the Twin Towers were...

Article Ok, the NYPost isn't always that reliable ;) but let's assume they've got the truth here - or something close to it. It seems to me that what's missing from the public discussion is a consideration of how long the condition lasted. Aren't standards for things like this typically...

A relative recently complained to me about the "environmentalists" whose opposition to using asbestos in the World Trade Center was responsible for the "quick" collapse of those buildings after the planes ran into them. They say if asbestos had been used, the buildings would have remained...