W.R. Grace Tries
to Define Its Way Out of Asbestos Poisoning
(4/17/08)
W.R.
Grace is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review pretrial
rulings in the government’s case charging the company with
trying to hide health risks associated with its vermiculite mine
in Libby. More...
9th Circuit Rules Against W.R. Grace (9/24/07)
The 9th circuit court has
overturned a lower court decision that would have limited
Grace's liability in the ongoing prosecution efforts.
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W.R. Grace May Owe Victims $6.2 Billion,
Lawyer Says (7/2/07)
W.R.
Grace & Co., a bankrupt chemical maker, may owe victims of its
asbestos products as much as $6.2 billion -- more than four
times the company's estimate -- said a legal scholar hired by
attorneys suing the company. More...
America's Loss (3/12/07)
Les Skramstad husband, father, and
grandfather lost his life to cancer in January at Libby, Montana. Les was a
gentleman. Unassuming and down to earth, he lived life trusting that a man’s
word was as good as his handshake. He loved his family and his guitar, and
he believed in doing what’s right. With his passing, America lost a true
champion in the cause of asbestos awareness, and I lost a friend.
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Honoring Les Skramstad (1/24/07)
Mr.
President, I rise today to pay tribute to a Montanan who died
Saturday night at his home in Libby, Montana. Libby is a small
town up in the northwest corner of my state.
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Toxic Town Waits; Cleanup Goes On.
Residents of Libby, Mont. seek EPA Buyout
(1/23/07)
For more than 65 years, lethal
asbestos fibers from a nearby vermiculite mine contaminated this
small town and its people.
Federal agencies have spent seven
years and tens of millions of dollars removing tons of the
cancer-causing material from homes, businesses, schools and
playgrounds. Yet no one is sure that any amount of time or money
can clean up the town enough to make it safe to live there.
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Libby Folks Must Get
Some Answers (11/22/99)
Hundreds of people in Libby,
Mont., have been consigned to die painful deaths because they were exposed to highly toxic
asbestos dust.
And many more of Libby's 2,700
residents may die simply because government officials can't stir themselves to learn
whether the health threat still exists.
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EPA Investigates Asbestos
in Libby -- "Has Moral Obligation to Clean Up Contamination"
(11/22/99)
State and federal
authorities say they will send teams of health and environmental
investigators to this tiny northwestern Montana town to evaluate whether
asbestos from a closed mine still threatens its residents.
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History of Asbestos
Disease in Libby, Montana (11/18/99)
FIrst
it killed some miners. Then it killed wives and children, slipping into their homes
on the dusty clothing of hard-working men. Now the mine is closed, but in Libby, the killing goe on.
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Montana Governor From Libby Should Have Known of
Dangers (11/25/99)
As
a child, the governor of Montana played in the piles of
asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore that some residents in this small
mining community say have caused death and disease.
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