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Feds reach $3.5M settlement in Yellowstone National Park oil spill that impacted river

The federal government has reached a $3.5 million settlement following a 2020 gasoline spill in Yellowstone National Park that polluted the Yellowstone River and groundwater next to it. The money will be used to continue remedial work in the area that's expected to continue for years. Some

After years of delay, EPA promises Butte community that a new lead action level is coming

EPA’s regional administrator spoke Tuesday night at Montana Technological University and said something locals have verbalized for years. “We all know that the 1,200 number, that’s not acceptable, that it needs to come down, and that’s going to by a pretty significant extent,” said Cyrus Western,

EPA's directive for lead in soils described in Butte as 'troubling' and 'hogwash'

The EPA announced Monday a new national directive for addressing lead contamination in residential soils — long a hot topic in Butte-Silver Bow County because of Superfund cleanup of pollution from historic mining and smelting. J.P. Gallagher, chief executive officer of Butte-Silver Bow, described being deeply troubled by