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November 24, 2015

Mont. cleanup has left some asbestos behind

  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent more than $540 million removing asbestos near the town of Libby.

    • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials say their final analysis of a Montana community wracked by a deadly asbestos contamination shows a costly and much-criticized cleanup is working, even though some 700 properties have yet to be investigated and concerns linger over asbestos left behind.

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent more than $540 million removing asbestos in and around the town of Libby in northwest Montana. The material came from a W.R. Grace and Co. vermiculite mine that is now closed.


     
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