Montana senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester are asking the U.S. Senate to allocate emergency funding for the Libby, Montana’s Center for Asbestos-Related Disease (CARD) Clinic in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill. They have requested $250,000 to support the clinic’s work serving Libby residents who suffer from asbestos-related diseases. Asbestos contamination from the W.R. Grace vermiculite mine in Libby caused hundreds of people in the town of Libby to develop asbestos-related diseases like mesothelioma, a cancer that attacks the lining of the lungs, abdomen or heart. The U.S. Senate will vote soon on the Appropriations Bill, letting officials at the CARD Clinic know what resources they will have to continue their work on behalf of Libby’s asbestos victims.
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