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Article

25 Feb 2009

Author:
Missoulian [USA]

W. R. Grace: The Trial

"Worse than Three Mile Island and Love Canal combined." That’s how citizens in Libby describe the effects of W.R. Grace on their town. The company and six of its leaders are on trial in U.S. District Court in Missoula, accused of hiding the fact that asbestos unearthed from Grace’s vermiculite mine near Libby was killing the town’s residents. More than 200 people are dead and hundreds more ill, their lungs, in the words of one, turned to "solid concrete."