All Entries Tagged With: "Libby"
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.
The Accidental Activist
Mike Crill spent his life fighting to right wrongs. Now he just wants to live, and die, in peace.
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.
Racicot’s ruin?
Short of endorsing a ban on hunting, or suggesting something good about gun control, there is probably no quicker way to destroy a potential or existing political career in Montana than by failing to put 100-percent support behind anything perceived to be beneficial to Libby asbestos victims.
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.
