Nora Saks
Nora Saks is a freelance radio and print journalist investigating themes of environmental justice in the Crown of the Continent and beyond.
She's currently a graduate student in the University of Montana's Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism Masters Program.
Having lived both north and south of the 49th parallel, she's inclined to use the term "bioregion" a little too frequently when describing her interest in exploring boundaries based on ecology rather than politics.
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This season on Richest Hill you’ve been hearing all about what mining meant for Butte, the toxic legacy it left behind, and about sprawling efforts to...
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There’s an ongoing debate in Butte about public health and exposure to heavy metals in the environment from historic and current mining operations. The...
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A fire broke out early Thursday morning in Uptown Butte, gutting a historic building and ravaging several businesses.
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A new study says it’s possible to rebuild a creek — destroyed by decades of mining — that once flowed through Butte. But it won’t be easy and it won’t...
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After more than 30 years in limbo without a final cleanup agreement, the ink is drying on Butte’s big Superfund deal as we speak. What it means and why...
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A copper mining company and Butte-Silver Bow county agreed this week to a plan to pump more cold, clean water into local creeks . While the company and...
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Federal investigators that study public health risks at Superfund sites had good news for Anacondans this week. At a meeting on Wednesday, they reported...
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Federal officials Thursday revealed more specifics about the timeline and process surrounding the final deal for Butte’s Superfund cleanup, although...
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Federal public health investigators that study risks at Superfund sites are coming back to Anaconda this week to discuss the results of a study...
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This week, the parties in charge of the Superfund cleanup of the Butte Hill and urban creek corridors agreed on a final cleanup deal, marking a turning...