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Article: MURRAY SCOLDS EPA ON PULLING ASBESTOS WARNINGS SHE'LL PURSUE BAN ON ALL USES OF SUBSTANCE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 7, 2003
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Byline: CHARLES POPE P-I Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patty Murray yesterday criticized the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to alert millions of people to potentially lethal danger from home insulation laced with asbestos.
In a 22-minute speech on the Senate floor in which she displayed concern, resentment and anger, Murray, D-Wash., asked the EPA to provide a detailed explanation for why the agency wrote and then withdrew a nationwide alert warning about the dangers from insulation containing a form of asbestos known as tremolite.
According to Murray, the EPA finished work last spring on a ...