News for July 9th, 2008

Mystery vermiculite find in Libby park

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.

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