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A new report written by a physician practicing at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease (CARD) in Libby, Montana, predicts an epidemic of mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer, in the next 10 to 20 years. The report was featured in a report by the Daily Inter Lake, which serves northwest Montana.
Judge Donald Molloy has set a status hearing for all parties involved in the W.R. Grace criminal case in Missoula, Montana, Oct. 24. The criminal charges were initially filed in 2005, and alleges W.R. Grace knowingly endangered the lives of mine workers and other Libby, Montana, residents. The company is charged with charged with violating the Clean Air Act by releasing asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from its mine there. Asbestos disease devastated the town of Libby, affecting miners who worked in the now-closed vermiculite mine.
Residents of Libby, Montana, and Environmental Protection Agency officials were stumped July 1 when a large chunk of vermiculite asbestos was found in Riverfront Memorial Park, a site that had been cleaned three previous times for asbestos contamination. Libby is the location of one of the most well known and widespread asbestos contamination episodes in the United States, and is a multi-million dollar Superfund cleanup site.
Monday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeals of W.R. Grace & Co. and six of its top executives, who are charged with violating the Clean Air Act by releasing asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from a mine in Libby, Montana, according to a story today in the Missoulian. The decision comes two years after the initial criminal filing against the company, which has been delayed pending the filing of numerous legal motions.
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