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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
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.
Groundhog day
It must have seemed like déjà vu for some Libby residents on April 5, 2007.
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.
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.
A Dangerous Lie
Photo: Warning label on the back of a Zonolite insulation bag. (Photo courtesy Anthony G. Rich).
