A panel of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of plaintiffs’ claims that BNSF Railway is ...

Decades after asbestos contamination was discovered in Libby, Montana, families and courts are still grappling with the health impacts.

Long before she joined a major legal case for asbestos victims, Joyce Walder had a bold streak, according to her sister, Judith Hemphill. On a recent Monday in October, walking through the forests of ...

Asbestos-containing vermiculite from the Grace mine was used as insulation in millions of houses across the U.S. In Libby, contaminated waste from the mine was unwittingly used by many residents as a ...

Jurors in the W.R. Grace & Co. criminal trial on Thursday heard testimony from a toxicologist who oversaw a chest X-ray study among a group of Libby miners. The study, which was commissioned by Grace ...

MISSOULA - W.R. Grace & Co. and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed human exposure to asbestos in Libby, the northwestern Montana town near a ...

LIBBY – Federal officials anticipate finishing by late 2014 a risk study to guide the cleanup of asbestos-contaminated Libby, after a panel of scientists backed draft results that say even a minuscule ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A proposed standard for federal cleanup of asbestos contamination in a Montana town concludes that even a tiny amount of the material can lead to lung problems _ a benchmark far ...

WASHINGTON -- Libby residents would receive special treatment in a bill that aims to stanch the flood of lawsuits related to asbestos exposure. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered the company that operated a Libby, Mont., vermiculite mine to repay $54.5 million the federal government has spent investigating and cleaning up the ...

LIBBY — They're getting ready for the Asbestos Health Fair in this old mining town. Posters promise ‘‘Door Prizes!!'' and ‘‘Blood draw to participate in ongoing research!'' Companies that sell home ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal by W.R. Grace & Co. in a case that involves criminal charges brought by the government against the company and six of its executives for Clean ...