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Consider vermiculite's pros and cons so you can decide if it's the right choice for the plants you want to grow.
Michael Flores has been through a tangle with asbestos, and he ran into a loophole in state policy that could leave anyone ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most of the world's supply came from that one town. The town later learned that vermiculite was contaminated with asbestos. Thousands of people would get lung cancer and other diseases.
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 ...
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 ...