CONGRESS MUST ELIMINATE ASBESTOS.(Editorial) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 1, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Asbestos is still legal in the United States. Because it causes cancer, the fibrous mineral has been banned by 20 countries and will be prohibited in the European Union by 2005. So far, at least 200 people who lived in Libby, Mont., have died because they were exposed to it. Still, products containing asbestos are allowed throughout this country.

But asbestos will end its long, deadly run in the United States if U.S. Sen. Patty Murray succeeds in eliciting some courage in...