BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Initial test results show only low levels of asbestos contamination in piles of wood chips and bark that were widely used for landscaping in a northwest Montana town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure, federal regulators said Thursday.
Low levels of asbestos were found in two of six wood chip samples taken from the grounds of a shuttered sawmill in the small town of Libby, said Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist Deborah McKean.
McKean described the initial results as promising but said more test results were needed to determine the human health risk.
The Associated Press reported in July that more than 15,000 tons …
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