W. R. Grace & Co. says it is giving a check worth US$250,000 to St. John’s Lutheran Hospital in Libby, Mont., for the 10th consecutive year, the Billings Gazette reports.
The Company operated a Libby vermiculite mine, which closed in 1990,…
W. R. Grace & Co.’s total estimated liability for asbestos remediation related to its former vermiculite operations in Libby, Mont. (including the cost of remediation at vermiculite processing sites outside of Libby), was US$47.7 million at March 31, 2009 and…
A federal jury cleared W. R. Grace and Co. and three of its former executives on all charges of knowingly exposing residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos and concealing the danger, the Chemical & Engineering News reports.
After a three-month trial…
Prosecutors in an asbestos and environmental lawsuit against W.R. Grace & Co. and certain of its former executives called their final witness on April 20, 2009, the Associated Press reports.
However, they will not rest their case until a federal judge…
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,…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding nine new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, according to an EPA press releases dated April 8, 2009.
Also, EPA…
Randy Geiger, a former environmental engineer for W. R. Grace & Co., on April 13, 2009, testified in the Company’s environmental crimes trial in Missoula, Mont., The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Mr. Geiger says he collected asbestos-tainted air samples at Libby,…
In his testimony, Robert Locke, a former W. R. Grace & Co. employee, said he warned supervisors of asbestos hazards in 1976, when studies showed consumer products were releasing high concentrations of asbestos, The Associated Press reports.
Mr. Locke was fired…
Total expense for W. R. Grace & Co. and certain of its current and former employees over a lawsuit concerning criminal activities at the Company’s former vermiculite mine in Libby, Mont., was US$29.7 million at Dec. 31, 2008, US$19 million…
An asbestos-related trial involving W. R. Grace & Co. commenced on Feb. 23, 2009 in the U.S. District Court in Missoula, Mont., the Associated Press reports.
In an opening statement, prosecutor Kris McLean said that Grace “and individual executives chose profits…