A deadline looms for people whose homes or businesses contain Zonolite Attic Insulation, a granular, gray-gold material tainted with shards of asbestos. Property owners have until Oct. 31 to file a ...

NEW YORK — W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay up to $140 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from its use of an attic-insulating product that contained asbestos. The Columbia-based ...

A Spokane attorney has helped negotiate a tentative $140 million class-action settlement with W.R. Grace & Co. over Zonolite Attic Insulation, an asbestos-tainted product installed in millions of U.S.

An audit by the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has found at least 600 homes on First Nations across the country contain Zonolite insulation – but the department has no plans to test ...

A court settlement described as "absurd and disturbing" would give Canadians owning homes contaminated with asbestos-containing Zonolite insulation virtually nothing, while their lawyers would get ...

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The Department of National Defence is once again spending millions of dollars to protect its tenants from asbestos contamination caused by Zonolite insulation in military homes. Last year, DND spent ...

HELENA – W.R. Grace and Co. officials on Thursday questioned the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to declare a public health emergency in Libby – a move that would pave the way for ...

If a grayish, pebble-like substance lurks silently in the attic of an older home, ignorance on the part of the owner will not work out to be bliss. In some homes built between 1919 and 1990, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The producer of a widely used brand of attic insulation knew for more than three decades that it contained asbestos fibers that could sicken and kill people, The Columbus ...

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- 'Tis the season to whip out the holiday decorations but there is a report warning homeowners that there could be a disturbing killer hidden up in the attic. Zonolite, a ...

1924: Alley builds primitive kiln that produced four tons of Zonolite per day. March 25, 1925: First boxcar of Zonolite shipped by rail from Libby to Ohio. Mid-1926: Zonolite mill producing up to 100 ...