Study looks at ways of removing asbestos-laden forest in Libby: 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 contamination of the town, its residents and its trees.Asbestos-related disease has killed an estimated 400 people and sickened 1,750 in Libby since the now-defunct W.R. Grace and Co. vermiculite mining operation released airborne fibers over the mountain town – the deadliest Superfund site in the country.
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