Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...

Q: Our home was built in 1970 and has a textured ceiling and paneled walls in the living room. We started to remove the old paneling, but this caused some of the ceiling texture to be scraped off.

This article is the tenth in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam: A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory and Food Safety Concerns, by Samuel Aldrich, excerpted and abridged by Jay ...

The Plaintiff, CNOOC Petroleum North America ULC (the “Tenant”), leased the entirety of Nexen Tower, a commercial office building located in downtown Calgary, from the Defendant landlords (the ...

Businesses may deduct environmental remediation costs currently as repairs if the expenditures keep property in an ordinarily efficient operating condition but don’t materially increase its value or ...

Federal prosecutors have won guilty pleas, convictions in shoddy asbestos removal cases. Prosecutors say greed motivates contractors to cut corners, risking worker safety, environment. State ...

Asbestos is the name for six kinds of minerals found naturally in the earth. They're made up of bundles of fibers that are flexible, lightweight, and resistant to heat, fire, chemicals, and ...