www.mineweb.net | sections | what's new W.R. Grace targeted by grand jury probe

www.mineweb.net | sections | what's new W.R. Grace targeted by grand jury probe: social "Grace is already the defendant in 65,656 asbestos-related lawsuits"
envi: In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency sued Grace in federal district court in Montana, seeking compensation for the EPA's costs in cleaning up the Libby mine, which was declared a Superfund site. A federal court ruled against Grace in August 2003, and ordered the company to pay $54.5 million. The federal court ordered Grace be responsible for paying EPA's future costs to clean up hundreds of residential and commercial facilities allegedly contaminated by the operation. That decision was appealed...Nearly 200 deaths have been blamed by local residents on the vermiculite mine.