 Stories About: mining and drilling AND Montana AND toxics
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Grace to the Bottom
W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides |
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11 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides W.R. Grace & Co. must pay $54.5 million to remove asbestos-contaminated soil from the mining town of Libby, Mont., the Supreme Court decided yesterday. The U.S. EPA sued the company five years ago to recover cleanup costs; a lower court ruled in the agency's favor an ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining and drilling, Montana, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable
W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine |
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08 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine Mining company W. R. Grace & Co. was formally charged yesterday with knowingly exposing mine employees and residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos and concealing evidence about its potentially dangerous health effects. The indictment marks the closing chapter of what U.S. Attorney Bill Me ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Cya-nara
State rejects attempt to repeal cyanide mining ban |
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03 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Cya-nara State rejects attempt to repeal cyanide mining ban Voters in Montana decisively rejected Initiative 147, which would have repealed the state's 1998 ban on open-pit cyanide leach mining, a highly destructive and polluting gold-mining technique that extracts small amounts of gold and silver diffused through large amounts of rock. Some 98 percent of the money behind the initiative, almost $3 million, ... |
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Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel
Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town |
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28 Aug 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town In the largest trial judgment awarded in the history of the Superfund law, a federal judge yesterday ordered W.R. Grace and Co. to repay the $54.5 million the federal government spent cleaning up asbestos contamination in the town of Libby, Mont. The company and its subsidiary had already agreed to pay ... |
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| Topics: health, mining and drilling, Montana, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Grace Under Pressure
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02 Jul 2003 |
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Grace Under Pressure
A review of Libby, Montana |
Michelle Nijhuis |
02 Jul 2003 |
Arts and Minds |
| It's never been easy to make a living in Libby, Mont. Citizens in this town of 12,000, tucked into the dense, damp conifer forests of northwestern Montana, have long scraped by on seasonal logging jobs and other sporadic work. So in the 1920s, when local entrepreneur Edward Alley discovered that a nearby vermiculite deposit yielded an efficient, lightweight insulation and fireproofing material, Libbyites were thrille ... |
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