ILLINGS — Federal officials have entered discussions with W.R. Grace & Co. over how to clean up asbestos washing into the Kootenai River from a deadly vermiculite mine the company owns in northwest ...

HELENA — Federal mine safety regulators fell short over the years in ensuring worker safety at a vermiculite mine in Libby, but probably couldn't have done much more to prevent asbestos-related deaths ...

Canadian company Exterra Carbon Solutions has launched a project to transform waste from the world's largest asbestos mine into electric vehicle battery materials. As Interesting Engineering reported, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 18—Libby and Troy may soon hit what federal officials described as a milestone in asbestos cleanup efforts, despite ...

Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into a Superfund site. Libby’s tremolite asbestos lurked in the shadows for decades until ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened.... Near old Montana mine, special clinic for ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby mine has been abruptly shuttered by authorities following a court ...

MSHA published a final rule raising protections for miners exposed to asbestos at metal, nonmetal and underground coal mines, stipulating it will reduce the asbestos exposure limit by 95 percent. The ...

Mineworkers and families accuse the Asbestos Relief Trust of failing to process asbestos-related claims in Mpumalanga.

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 ...