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'In Libby, There Was No Maybe' About Dangers
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News
This is Part 3 of a four-part series on an asbestos-tainted insulation called Zonolite, a killer that lurks in the attics and walls of millions of homes. LIBBY, Mont. (Nov. 29) -- On Thanksgiving week 11 years ago, a regional Environmental Protection Agency boss ordered three of his top agents to rush to a remote Montana town to disprove a newspaper's report of hundreds of people dying because of exposure to asbestos from a nearby vermiculite mine. The EPA experts thought it unbelievable that an environmental accident could destroy so many in one tiny town and they didn't know about ...
Government Refuses to Act on Cancer-Causing Insulation
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News
This is Part 1 of a four-part series on an asbestos-tainted insulation called Zonolite, a killer that lurks in the attics and walls of millions of homes. WASHINGTON (Nov. 29) -- Americans living in millions of homes will soon crawl into their attics to collect their holiday decorations. With those colorful lights and ornaments could come invisible and deadly asbestos fibers that decades from now may destroy or end the lives of some of the celebrants. For years the government has known that the attics and walls of as many as 35 million homes and businesses are insulated with Zonolite, which ...
Bush and Cheney's Relationship Was Strained at End of Term
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyAfter eight years working together as possibly the closest president and vice president in U.S. history, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney left the White House in January barely on speaking terms over Bush's decision not to pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby. According to a fascinating article in Time magazine piecing together the final days of the administration, the vice president pushed so hard against an unwilling Bush to pardon former Cheney staffer Libby that their relationship was strained to the breaking point. ...
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