The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state's claims for ...

A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett's BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to ...

Looming over the proceedings is W.R. Grace & Co., a chemical company that operated a mountaintop vermiculite mine 7 miles (11 kilometers) outside of Libby until it was closed 1990. The Maryland ...

The railroad — now owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — hauled asbestos-tainted vermiculite from a nearby mine through Libby, Montana, over decades. How much BNSF knew about the ...

The vermiculite mine several miles away closed down in 1990. Nine years later, the Environmental Protection Agency arrived in Libby. The subsequent cleanup has cost an estimated $600 million ...

HELENA, Mont.HELENA, Mont. — The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the ...

For decades, the W.R. Grace & Co. mine near Libby produced the contaminated vermiculite that exposed residents to asbestos, sickening thousands and leading to the deaths of hundreds. The estates ...

LOUISA, Va. — Dangerously high levels of asbestos have been found at one of the nation’s largest vermiculite mines, federal investigators told workers at the mine here Tuesday. The mine’s ...

LIBBY – A new study identifies timber harvesting as a possible remedy for a 35,000-acre swath of asbestos-laden forest in Libby, where decades of vermiculite mining has led to widespread ...

Jun. 6—The Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a public meeting Tuesday, June 6 with partner agencies to give an update about the former vermiculite mine, also known as Operable Unit 3.

NIOSH plans to research the distribution and concentration of asbestos contamination in vermiculite, which is\r\nproduced by various mines and used in different occupational\r\nsettings. The National ...

LOUISA, Va. — The discovery of asbestos in a vermiculite mine here is tragic news for the miners, but vindication for a group of silver-haired Southern belles who have fought for 30 years to ...