My family’s lived in a tract home in sunny Southern California for several decades before disaster struck. While we were away a line broke on a toilet in one of our bathrooms and we returned home to find the entire floor of the house flooded. Yard after yard of carpet ruined. Baseboards soaked and...

Asbestos is one of the world’s oldest known and most versatile building and construction materials. The Ancient Greeks and Romans wove the fibrous strands of asbestos into clothing, and used larger amounts of the heat-and-flame-resistant material in their numerous metalworking and ceramic processes,...