EPA orders changes to cleanup in Missouri's Old Lead Belt

Saturday, August 1, 2009

ST. LOUIS -- The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a Missouri mining company to make changes as it cleans up toxic mine tailings at a shuttered mine operation in Leadwood, the federal agency said Friday.

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