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Just a year after vermiculite closed the Cayuga County Office Building, officials have now confirmed asbestos contamination ...
In 2000, the EPA reported that it had tested vermiculite products from all over the nation and concluded that “only 15 ...
That mine is the home of the nation's largest Superfund site because the vermiculite minerals were contaminated with a highly toxic form of asbestos known as Libby Amphibole asbestos. For years ...
LIBBY, Mont. — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as ...
Soil testing conducted by Environmental Protection Agency has found asbestos contamination in West Dallas properties adjacent to the former W.R. Grace vermiculite processing plant, which has since ...
A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett's BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to ...
didn’t know the vermiculite they hauled over decades from a nearby mine was filled with hazardous microscopic asbestos fibers. The case in federal civil court over the two deaths is the first of ...
For decades, the W.R. Grace & Co. mine near Libby produced the contaminated vermiculite that exposed residents to asbestos, sickening thousands and leading to the deaths of hundreds. The estates ...
Jurors said asbestos-contaminated vermiculite that spilled in the rail yard in the town of Libby, Montana was a substantial factor in the plaintiffs’ illnesses and deaths. Family members of the ...
In 2020, Montana's Supreme Court found BNSF liable for shipping asbestos-tainted vermiculite from a nearby mine through Libby. The clinic and its high-profile doctor, Brad Black, have been at the ...
The discovery of asbestos in the basement is unrelated to the vermiculite found on the upper floors of the building.