Contaminated vermiculite ore from Libby, Montana was processed in northeast Minneapolis from 1936 to 1989 in a densely populated urban residential neighborhood, resulting in non-occupational exposure ...

Over nearly a century, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, Mont., have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, leading to markedly higher rates of lung disease and autoimmune ...

Background: Libby, Montana, was home to the largest vermiculite ore mine in the United States. The processing, use, and transport of the ore, which was contaminated with amphibole asbestos, led to ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Six senior employees of W.R. Grace & Co. pleaded not guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges that they conspired for decades to hide the health dangers posed by asbestos-laced ...

HAMILTON -- W.R. Grace & Co. shipped more than 200,000 tons of potentially asbestos-tainted minerals to its Hamilton plant between 1966 and 1988, but environmental regulators did not test soil at the ...

More than one-quarter of tested workers at an Ohio manufacturing plant historically exposed to asbestos-containing vermiculite ore exhibited signs of scarring of the chest wall lining, or pleural ...

According to researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, Mont., have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, for nearly a century, ...

CINCINNATI—Workers exposed to low levels of an asbestos-like mineral from Montana more than two decades ago are at an increased risk for lung disease today, according to research from the University ...

Spokane County will pay more than $100,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency for soil testing costs at a former asbestos processing site in the West Central neighborhood. The agreement between ...

Jan. 18—Zeeq Michel uses the same bus stop almost every day to get to and from his after-school job at the Salish School of Spokane. Zeeq, 15, said he used to fear for his safety whenever he'd be ...

Hey, Cecil: My wife and I had a very unpleasant experience selling our house after our buyer's inspector came back with a report of vermiculite in our attic. After a week of stress and an $80 test, it ...