Asbestos settlement plan unleashes lobby war

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

WASHINGTON -- As a child in Montana, Mike Switzer played around the local vermiculite mine, swinging off a rope into dusty piles of insulation and pushing toy cars through asbestos-laden dust in nearby yards.

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