Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person testing material for asbestos - Pvince73/Shutterstock When you're in your house, you expect to be safe. If your home was ...

Thousands of families in Louisville are intimately familiar with the devastating reality of childhood lead exposure, but thousands more may be completely unaware that a dangerous neurotoxin is ...

Lead is a potent neurotoxin that causes severe health effects such as neurological damage, organ failure and death. Widely used in products such as paint and gasoline until the late 1970s, lead ...

State environmental regulators have opened up another investigation, this time in Baltimore County, after tests confirmed lead-contaminated paint chips are falling from a section of Interstate 95 in ...

When you're in your house, you expect to be safe. If your home was built before 1980, though, it's possible that you have dangerous materials in place that were used as part of home construction ...