Asbestos can cause lung cancer.
The news about the Louisa mine came to light last Wednesday morning in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. I read the story that morning while surfing the Web. I was surprised, to say the least. In a June 12 column I had reported that no asbestos had been found at the mining site of Virginia Vermiculite Ltd., that the place was safe. That information was given to me both by Ned Gumble, general manager of Virginia Vermiculite Ltd., and by a spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection Agency.