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The discovery of asbestos in the basement is unrelated to the vermiculite found on the upper floors of the building.
In 2000, the EPA reported that it had tested vermiculite products from all over the nation and concluded that “only 15 ...
LIBBY, Mont. — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as ...
That mine is the home of the nation's largest Superfund site because the vermiculite minerals were contaminated with a highly toxic form of asbestos known as Libby Amphibole asbestos. For years ...
Soil testing conducted by Environmental Protection Agency has found asbestos contamination in West Dallas properties adjacent to the former W.R. Grace vermiculite processing plant, which has since ...
A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett's BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to ...
Asbestos mining sickened generations of people in Libby, Montana. Now, a lawsuit has shut down a clinic set up to help them, even as others continue to be diagnosed.
For decades, the W.R. Grace & Co. mine near Libby produced the contaminated vermiculite that exposed residents to asbestos, sickening thousands and leading to the deaths of hundreds. The estates ...
didn’t know the vermiculite they hauled over decades from a nearby mine was filled with hazardous microscopic asbestos fibers. The case in federal civil court over the two deaths is the first of ...
Just a year after vermiculite closed the Cayuga County Office Building, officials have now confirmed asbestos contamination ...
LIBBY, Mont. (AP) — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust ...