U.S. transfers care for towns polluted with asbestos to state
FILE - This Feb. 17, 2010, aerial file photo, shows the town of Libby Mont. With a decades-long cleanup of asbestos contamination in the town largely completed, state officials are taking over the effort to protect residents from future exposure to the potentially deadly material. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010 file photo, Dr. Brad Black, director of the Libby, Mont., asbestos clinic, looks at X-rays. A doctor in Libby since 1977, Black has been at the front lines of Libby's asbestos fight. State regulators are taking over responsibility for protecting residents of Libby and nearby Troy from exposure to asbestos that remains after a decades-long cleanup of the communities. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
BILLINGS — State regulators are taking over maintenance of a decades-long environmental cleanup in two northwestern Montana towns where lung-damaging asbestos contamination has been blamed in hundreds of deaths.
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