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Article: STOPPING ASBESTOS IS JOB FOR CONGRESS, ADMINISTRATION.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 15, 2003
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The slow-motion disaster of asbestos that originated in Libby, Mont., may be spreading across the country.
Tens of millions of homes, schools and businesses may contain insulation heavily contaminated by the cancer-causing material. It isn't a cause for panic, but it deserves attention.
The Bush administration, however, has so far ignored the health risks for millions of Americans. In its knowing refusal to face squarely the dangers of asbestos, the administration is in what might be called good company. It joins the ranks of the W.R. Grace & Co., which kept mining asbestos-containing vermiculite in Libby for years with little apparent regard for worker ...