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Rumple Report Released

Rumple Report Released

Damaging report revealing lack of science at EPA’s worst Superfund Site.

Rumple Report Reviewed

Rumple Report Reviewed

Read analysis of the damaging report.

Editorial 11/01/07

Editorial 11/01/07

If any individual deserves credit for getting Libby’s asbestos Superfund cleanup out of neutral and into gear, (although possibly still spinning its wheels) it’s Cory Rumple.

The EPA’s moving target

The EPA’s moving target

On 08/16/07 Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) may have admitted that the EPA’s expenditure of seven years and $110 million dollars cleaning asbestos from Libby, with no way of knowing if the town is clean, was criminal.

Stephen L. Johnson, head of EPA during final years of the Bush Administration.

Yes, no, maybe…

On Aug. 6, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson paid his second visit to Libby, Montana.

Two steps forward

Vindication has come in small increments for the men who made their concerns over the Environmental Protection Agency’s cleanup of Libby public in the July 27 issue of the Independent.