Trial to Begin Against Railroad Over Deaths in Montana Town Where Thousands Were Exposed to Asbestos
HELENA, Mont.—A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine. For decades, the W.R. Grace & Co. mine near Libby produced the contaminated vermiculite that exposed residents […]