In a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
lawsuit filed on April 21, 2009, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency is improperly withholding a report on whether
its cleanup in Libby, Mont., is adequate to protect the
residents of that community,…
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