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As the largest Superfund site in the history of the U.S., the town of Libby, Mont. has been forever turned upside down by the vermiculite mine six miles outside of town that kicked up asbestos dust for decades and is directly responsible for killing more than 400 residents.

The Environmental Protection Agency have been a mainstay in Libby for nearly a decade, spending much of the time discovering that the asbestos problem is much worse than originally thought.

But the EPA aren’t the only ones interested in what’s going on in Libby. The Center for Asbestos Related Disease is undertaking a $4.8 million study of former residents who attended Libby High School between 1950 and 1999.

The purpose of the study is to track the health of these roughly 13,000 students and determine the extent of contamination – specifically why Libby residents have been diagnosed with Asbestos-related diseases on a much faster timeline than many others who have been exposed in other ways and places.

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