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Editorial 08/31/2006

In July 2006, the Independent published the story of Dr. Gerry Henningsen, Gordon Sullivan, Abe Troyer and Clinton Maynard. The four men, who have been deeply involved with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) cleanup of asbestos contamination in Libby, said a report by EPA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigator Cory Rumple confirms their belief that the EPA is hiding the possibility that Libby is still contaminated, and still dangerous, in part because the agency has never bothered to study the type of asbestos specific to that town.

How clean was the cleanup?

Gordon Sullivan finally felt some hope of vindication for his criticisms of the Environmental Protection Agency’s work cleaning up the asbestos-contaminated town of Libby when a federal investigator interviewed him about two weeks ago.