This site provides links to a collection of Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper articles about the history of asbestos-contaminated vermiculite mining in Libby, Montana. Topics of the articles include the recently discovered health risks associated with vermiculite, case histories of residents who became ill from asbestos exposure, and environmental restoration and public health care efforts made in response.
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