EPA confirms no problems with asbestos handling at school

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found no problems with the way workers removed asbestos from a DeKalb County school construction site.

A resident alleged last week that workers mishandled asbestos tiles, potentially releasing lung-damaging pollutants into the air. But EPA spokeswoman Dawn Harris-Young said Tuesday that an investigator visited the site at Dunwoody High School on June 27, and "we didn't find any violations."

School district spokesman Walter Woods had said last week that the materials were properly bagged and removed from the site.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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