The study released today by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety adds to the mountain of evidence that the federal government is not doing enough to protect the public from deadly rollover crashes. The Institute’s study exposes the junk science that the auto industry has been circulating for years.
Archive for March 12th, 2008
It was one of the worst cases of industrial pollution ever — the asbestos contamination of Libby, Montana. Now, the company responsible, Maryland-based W.R. Grace, will pay the biggest fine in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund cleanup program. Allison Connolly writes about it in the Baltimore Sun. The asbestos contamination from a mine operated by Grace caused 1,200 residents and mine workers to get sick or die from related ailments.
