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Former mine worker Mike Crill protests outside the Russell Smith Federal District Courthouse during opening arguments in the W.R. Grace environmental trial at in Missoula, Mont., on Monday. A federal prosecutor told jurors Monday that W.R. Grace & Co. knew for years that its products posed serious health hazards to residents of Libby, Mont., but the company hid the risks from workers and government regulators. See story below. (AP Photo/Mike Albans)
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Nick_Adams on February 23 at 11:05 p.m.
WR Grace has been doing this for decades. Not just in Montana. They’ve been poisoning people across the country for years and it’s only their legal delay tactics that keep them afloat. After all, it’s easy for them to figure their attorneys will live longer than the plaintiffs.
Liz on February 24 at 1:17 a.m.
WR Grace was the company in the movie “A Civil Action” concerning the poisoning of the water in Woburn, Massachusetts. I happened to spend a number of years in a town neighboring Woburn and I followed this case closely because of that. Then I move to the Inland Northwest and here they are again. As far as I am concerned there is a very special place in hell waiting for these dirtbags. May they spend eternity watching replays over and over of the suffering that they have caused.