Superfund

Lead contamination and exposure in Montana go back several decades. But the data do not. Without more information, state and local health departments have no way of knowing how many people have been affected and the extent of the impact.

The state of Montana is adding extra cleanup measures at a former wood treatment plant turned Superfund site in Butte.

State and federal officials say a large mining clean-up project in Montana is nearly complete and open for recreation.At the Upper Blackfoot Mining…

Right after talking to a psychic about my own path and Butte’s, I felt comforted. It felt good to let someone else take the wheel for a while, you know?…

The parties in charge of the sprawling 300 square mile Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site Friday lodged a partial legally-binding cleanup deal in federal…

The Environmental Protection Agency’s second in command returned to Butte and Anaconda this week to celebrate major milestones in their decades-long…

The core of the Superfund deal itself, and how it proposes to solve Butte’s lingering environmental problems forever, is really important and complicated,…

A final deal signed by a federal judge this week outlining cleanup of century old mining waste in Butte means there’s going to be a flurry of work…

Butte’s $150 million cleanup deal is at last carved in legal stone after more than a decade of negotiations, and more than three decades on the Superfund…

Butte’s pending $150 million Superfund cleanup deal is now one step away from being legally set in stone.The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday filed…