GENEVA (Reuters) - Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United ...

The new regulations, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999, will prohibit the import, sale and use of asbestos, the manufacture, import, sale and use of products containing asbestos, as ...

Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that it will discontinue sales of its talc-based baby powder in Canada and the United States. The company has faced thousands of lawsuits alleging the powder ...

For decades Johnson and Johnson covered up the fact that their talcum powder was contaminated with asbestos and was allegedly ...

ASBESTOS, Quebec (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned for votes in Quebec on Tuesday and defended one of the province's most controversial exports - asbestos. Health and ...

Legal action launched against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson claiming it knowingly sold Johnson's Baby Powder contaminated with asbestos, which it denies ...

More than 3,000 U.K. claimants accuse U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson of knowingly selling asbestos-tainted ...

BOSTON — A Marion environmental services company and its owners have been indicted on 98 counts in connection with worker safety violations and illegal asbestos work in New Bedford, Fall River, ...

A judge granted U.S. recognition to the Canadian bankruptcy proceedings of a former Quebec asbestos miner, overruling opposition from injury claimants who argued that allowing the foreign case would ...

LYNNWOOD — A Lynnwood asbestos removal contractor is facing nearly $800,000 in fines for repeatedly exposing workers and homeowners to hazardous conditions at local job sites. The state Department of ...