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Prosecutors In W.r. Grace Case Say Actions By Executives Endangered Town's Residents

机译：W.r.的检察官恩典案说高管采取的行动危及城镇居民

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During opening arguments in the federal prosecution of chemical maker W.R. Grace and five former executives, government attorneys alleged the company knew that exposing the town of Libby, Mont., to even small amounts of tremo-lite asbestos, contained in the vermiculite Grace mined there, endangered the town's residents (United States v. W.R. Grace, D. Mont., No. 9:05-cr-7, 2/24/09).rnIn eight hours of opening statements Feb. 23 and Feb. 24 in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, federal prosecutors and defense attorneys offered vastly different views about whether the former executives should be held responsible for withholding data about the risks Libby residents faced from being exposed to asbestos.rnThe five executives being tried are Henry A. Eschen-bach, Jack W. Wolter, William J. McCaig, Robert J. Bet-tacchi, and Robert C. Walsh. All are now retired and allrnhave remained free on their own recognizance while awaiting trial.rnAttorneys for the federal government argued that Grace and the former executives deliberately hid from the community and government agencies information about the tremolite contamination. That contamination has been linked by federal and state regulators to more than 200 deaths and possibly thousands of illnesses from asbestos-related disease.rnDefense attorneys countered that the dangers of asbestos were well known, that the Environmental Protection Agency knew about the dangers in Libby and did nothing, and that the company and its executives could not be charged with violating a provision of the Clean Air Act that did not exist until after November 1990, when the company is accused of hiding the results of its own scientific studies.rnThe defendants face up to 15 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. The trial is expected to last several months.
机译：在联邦起诉化学品制造商WR Grace和五名前高管的公开辩论中，政府律师指控该公司知道，蒙大拿州的利比镇暴露于什锦的race石中所含的少量透闪石棉石棉。 ，威胁到该镇的居民（美国诉WR Grace，D。Mont。，第9：05-cr-7，2/24/09号案）。rn在2月23日和2月24日在美国的开庭陈述中有八个小时蒙大拿州地方法院，联邦检察官和辩护律师对前高管是否应负有责任隐瞒利比居民暴露于石棉的风险数据提出了截然不同的看法。被审判的五名高管是亨利·A。埃申巴赫，杰克·W·沃尔特，威廉·麦凯格，罗伯特·贝塔奇和罗伯特·沃尔什。现在所有人都已经退休，等待审判时，所有人都可以自由出任。联邦政府的律师辩称，格雷斯和前高管故意向社区和政府机构隐瞒了透闪石污染的信息。联邦和州监管机构已将这种污染与200多例石棉相关疾病造成的死亡和数千种疾病联系在一起。国防律师指出，石棉的危害众所周知，环境保护署了解利比和利比里亚的危害。没有采取任何行动，并且该公司及其高管不能被指控违反1990年11月以后才存在的《清洁空气法》的规定，当时该公司被指控隐藏自己的科学研究结果。最高可判处15年监禁和数百万美元罚款。该审判预计将持续数月。

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    《Environment reporter》 |2009年第9期|427-428|共2页
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