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A Toxic Mess Reaches The Supreme Court

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Residents of Opportunity, Montana have a problem: their town is infected with a century’s worth of toxins from copper mining. The responsible company, Arco, and the E.P.A. have come up with a plan to fix that, but the community members say it’s woefully inadequate and doesn’t guarantee “a clean and healthful environment.” Now, the case has escalated all the way to the Supreme Court. Guest: Kathleen McLaughlin, reporter based in Montana Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt and Mara Silvers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So you grew up in butte?

0:36.8

I did.

0:38.0

My father was a minor and my family were minors going back four or five generations.

0:44.7

Kathleen McLaughlin is a reporter.

0:47.4

For years, she worked in China,

0:49.9

but recently she decided to come home to butte Montana,

0:53.5

the same copper mining town where she grew up.

0:56.8

It was once known as the richest hill on earth.

1:00.4

Drive me through this region where mining has really

1:06.3

been such a part of the infrastructure for so long.

1:10.1

You come, I say you're coming from Helena and you cross over

1:14.2

the continental to the west.

1:19.6

You come over this huge mountain and down into a valley that is mute.

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