Atlantic Richfield Company Agrees to Pay $187 Million for Montana Superfund Cleanup
U.S. Newswire, February, 2008
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, 1- 202-514-2007, or the Environmental Protection Agency, 1-406-457- 5030
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) has agreed to pay $187 million that will finance a major cleanup along 120 miles of the Clark Fork River and other areas in southwestern Montana, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced today.
The State of Montana is a party to settlement and will be the lead government agency conducting the cleanup using the funds secured in the settlement. Decades of mining activity upstream in Butte and Anaconda has contaminated the sediment, banks and floodplain of the Clark Fork with heavy metals that...
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