Contaminated vermiculite ore from Libby, Montana was processed in northeast Minneapolis from 1936 to 1989 in a densely populated urban residential neighborhood, resulting in non-occupational exposure ...

Employees, their families and people living close to 28 exfoliation sites may have been exposed to amphibole asbestos from vermiculite mined Libby, Mont., between the 1920s and the early 1990s, a ...

WITH energy prices expected to soar this winter, many homeowners are taking steps to improve their homes’ insulation. In doing so, some may find that they have vermiculite insulation, which may ...

More than one-quarter of tested workers at an Ohio manufacturing plant historically exposed to asbestos-containing vermiculite ore exhibited signs of scarring of the chest wall lining, or pleural ...

I've known that vermiculite insulation can contain asbestos, and my advice to homeowners has always been to assume it contains asbestos and leave it alone, which is also the advice of the EPA. If the ...

1923 - The year that commercial mining of vermiculite began near Libby. The mine closed in 1990. 794 - Number of homes in Libby that have been cleaned in recent years, but at least 600 more homes ...

LAST month, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a pamphlet informing homeowners about the potential dangers associated with a certain type of home insulation that may be ...

LIBBY, Mont. (AP) — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as ...

“A Mountain of Trouble Pulls a Town Together” (Opinion, Jan. 19) appropriately points out the legacy of asbestos-related disease from vermiculite mining in Libby, Mont. Vermiculite, commonly used in ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...