The high court upholds the EPA's claim that W.R. Grace must clean up a Montana mine site.

By Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writer
October 11, 2006

SEATTLE — The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand lower court rulings that require W.R. Grace & Co. to pay a $54.5-million federal bill for asbestos cleanup in a Montana mining town described by federal regulators as one of the nation's most contaminated Superfund sites.

The court rejected Grace's appeal of a decision in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency, which sued Grace five years ago to recover the cleanup costs at a vermiculite mine in the town of Libby. The government is also pursuing a criminal case involving several former executives or managers of the mining company for allegedly concealing health risks at the mine.

That trial will not begin until next year at the earliest.

The asbestos-laden vermiculite, laced into the mountains around Libby, was used as insulation in hundreds of thousands of homes and office buildings...(Read More)

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