Even as the long-awaited cleanup of the Valmont Butte moves forward, the project is still stirring up controversy, both from members of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, who don't believe the city has identified all the contamination, and from members of the Valmont School District No. 4 Cemetery Association, the group that maintains the resting places of many early settlers in the ...

Mines from as far back as the 1890s are being cleaned up for tailings in the Red River area. Cleanup projects to the Red River Mining district that were implemented in 2005 are nearing completion.

The Parrot mine tailings located near the Butte Civic Center contain copper despite the fact that they’ve historically been processed three times.

Slowdown of uranium waste near Moab concerns Utah lawmakers By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 30, 2012 10:49AM MDT Cleanup crews have hauled a big chunk of the massive Atlas tailings pile away from Moab during the past three years. But the project’s supporters now worry about the heavy lifting ahead: the political effort needed to keep the project moving. Under a new contract ...

Atlas cleanup slowdown concerns leaders By Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 28, 2012 08:19PM MDT Cleanup crews hauled a big chunk of the massive Atlas tailings pile away from Moab over the past three years. But the project’s supporters now worry about the heavy lifting ahead — the political effort needed to keep the project moving. Under a new contract just getting under way, about ...

Concerns about the recent announcement that operations at the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action project site along the Colorado River north of town would be reduced to nine months per year stirred a lively discussion during Tuesday’s Moab Tailings Project Steering Committee Meeting.

The federal government has said it will sharply reduce the money it contributes to the removal of old uranium mill tailings...

Mines from as far back as the 1890s are being cleaned up for tailings in the Red River area. Cleanup projects to the Red River Mining district that were implemented in 2005 are nearing completion.

The first big dollars are starting to flow out of a $460 million trust fund established to pay for cleanup of mining pollution in Idaho’s Silver Valley. About $8.5 million will be spent this year from the Asarco trust, which was created as part of the company’s 2009 bankruptcy settlement to pay for environmental liabilities in the valley.

Cleanup money flowing into Silver Valley