Ring, Ray,
Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?. Ray Ring. - High Country News, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 49, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?, Feb. 21, 2005; pp. 8+.
"The story of an ailing town in northwestern Montana calls into question the health of the environmental movement." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article addresses the claim that the environmental movement "has become narrow and self-interested, too focused on things like grizzly bears and wilderness to care about human needs," by illustrating how environmentalists have ignored the plight of asbestos victims exposed by a vermiculite mine owned by W.R. Grace & Co. in Libby, Montana.
1522-3205;
Sierra Club
W.R. Grace & Co.
Asbestos--Physiological effect
Asbestosis
Death--Causes
Environmentalism
Environmentalists
Vermiculite
Libby (Mont.)
AC1.S5
050
Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?. Ray Ring. - High Country News, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 49, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?, Feb. 21, 2005; pp. 8+.
"The story of an ailing town in northwestern Montana calls into question the health of the environmental movement." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article addresses the claim that the environmental movement "has become narrow and self-interested, too focused on things like grizzly bears and wilderness to care about human needs," by illustrating how environmentalists have ignored the plight of asbestos victims exposed by a vermiculite mine owned by W.R. Grace & Co. in Libby, Montana.
1522-3205;
Sierra Club
W.R. Grace & Co.
Asbestos--Physiological effect
Asbestosis
Death--Causes
Environmentalism
Environmentalists
Vermiculite
Libby (Mont.)
AC1.S5
050