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Detail of W.R. Grace Zonolite insulation bag. Andrew Rich photo.

Spokane gets asbestos review

Testing in the works well before Libby public health emergency, according to EPA agent.

Montana Senator Max Baucus (center) with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (left) and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, right, at a press conference announcing Public Health Emergency for Libby.

Examining Libby’s so-called Public Health Emergency

What, if anything, does the emergency declaration do?

The face of doubt

The face of doubt

EPA complies with FOIA, but gags employees

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.

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.

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.