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MT EPA director dies in climbing accident

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Montana's Environmental Protection Agency office said the agency's director, John Wardell, has died in a mountain climbing accident near Libby.

Deputy Director Julie Dalsoglio told Lee Newspapers of Montana that Wardell and a friend had climbed Snowshoe Peak in the Cabinet Wilderness Area near Libby on Thursday and Wardell slipped as they were descending.

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