All Entries in the "Libby Contamination" Category
Editorial 01/24/2008
When Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen L. Johnson visited Libby back in August, the message seemed to be that help was on the way, that the cleanup of asbestos contamination from years of mining by W.R. Grace would be given priority. But committing enough money to adequately decontaminate the town was apparently not part of the deal.
A Libby fiber in Helena
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set up an air monitoring station in Helena last fall, they didn’t expect to find anything.
The EPA just doesn’t know
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has confirmed allegations aired by four men in the July 27 Independent regarding the Libby asbestos cleanup.
Messed-up cleanup
In its April 27 issue, the Independent ran a story with a headline asking, “How clean was the cleanup?” in reference to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) remediation work in asbestos-contaminated Libby.
The answer we got last week, at least according to U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, is not very.
Does Libby’s bark bite?
Usually, children are told not to climb trees for fear of broken limbs (the children’s and trees’). Children at schools in Libby are being told to stay away from the trees for fear of cancer.
Trees turn on Libby
It appears even Libby’s trees couldn’t escape the asbestos pouring out of W.R. Grace’s deadly vermiculite mine.
