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When Corporate Accountability Fails: The Montana Asbestos Tragedy and What It Means for Cleburne Families The Libby, Montana Asbestos Disaster: A Warning for Texas Communities The small town of Libby, Montana, has been called one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. For decades, thousands of residents were exposed to deadly asbestos fibers from a nearby vermiculite mine operated by W.R. Grace & Company. The contamination was so severe that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared Libby a Superfund site in 2002—one of the largest and most complex cleanups in the agency’s history. Now, a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling that held BNSF Railway partially responsible for the deaths of two Libby residents. The victims, like so many others in the community, were exposed to asbestos not just from the mine itself, but from the rail cars that transported the contaminated vermiculite across the country. BNSF, one of the nation’s largest freight railroads, had been found liable for contributing to the spread of asbestos through its operations in Libby. This ruling doesn’t just affect Montana—it sends a dangerous message to communities across America, including Cleburne, Texas, where railroads, industrial facilities, and corporate negligence pose similar…