Post-Dispatch reporter Andrew Schneider has researched problems with asbestos contamination from the World Trade Center site to rural Montana. Reporter Paul Hampel has tracked how asbestos litigation fared in the courts of Madison County. Read their reports here.
Danger in the attic: "Libby gang" has earned town's trust, respect
In November 1999, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a series of articles saying that hundreds of people in the tiny northwestern Montana town of Libby were dead or dying from exposure to asbestos contaminating the vermiculite ore in a nearby mine. [more]
World trade center dust: U.S. geological survey analysis
Two dozen men and women dropped everything, determined to find out what was in that residue -- and how dangerous it was. [more]
World trade center attack asbestos health threat
Federal and state officials in New York have grossly underestimated or played down the number of people in lower Manhattan who are at risk of being sickened or killed from exposure to asbestos released in the collapse of the World Trade Center. [more]
EPA still draws ire in Idaho panhandle environmental cleanups
To many people, even when the Environmental Protection Agency does something right, it's wrong. Take, for example, the area around the Bunker Hill mine here in the Idaho panhandle. [more]
Epa's plan to clean up insulation is too limited, some say
The Environmental Protection Agency says it will immediately remove asbestos-contaminated insulation from the attics and walls of hundreds of homes in the tiny northwestern Montana town of Libby. [more]
World trade center attack: Libby, Montana
Much of the asbestos-tainted vermiculite that spewed from the collapsing World Trade Center was dug from a mine in the Cabinet Mountains above this picturesque Kootenai River town. [more]
Asbestos vicitms get hand from U.S.
The U.S. Justice Department has gone to court against W.R. Grace & Co. to try to ensure help for millions of Americans who have asbestos-contaminated insulation in their homes and others who have been sickened by cancer-causing material that was used throughout the country. [more]
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