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Cleanup Advancing On 'The Waste Site That Time Forgot' Near Butte

Montana Standard Editor David McCumber.
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Montana Standard Editor David McCumber.
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Montana Standard Editor David McCumber.

Half a million gallons of flammable toxic sludge have been sitting just west of Butte since 1997. A multinational chemical company finally has the green light to clean up the site and mine the waste for profit. The Montana Standard has been covering the story. Nora Saks spoke with the paper’s editor David McCumber.

 

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Nora Saks is a freelance radio and print journalist investigating themes of environmental justice in the Crown of the Continent and beyond.