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July 2, 2020

EPA transfers care for towns polluted with asbestos to state

  • State and local officials in Montana will be responsible for handling any new discoveries of contamination in the towns of Libby and Troy.
  • By MATTHEW BROWN
    Associated Press

    BILLINGS, Mont. — State regulators are taking over maintenance of a decades-long environmental cleanup in two northwestern Montana towns where lung-damaging asbestos contamination has been blamed in hundreds of deaths.

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday transferred responsibility for protecting the towns of Libby and Troy from further contamination to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.


     
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