ShareThe Doe Run Company will spend up to $65 million on environmental improvements as a result of a consent decree signed with US EPA, the federal Department of Justice and Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources on Oct. 8. An additional $7 million was assessed in non-compliance penalties, to be paid to school funds in Iron, [...]

Share Exhibits, presentations and free museum admission will highlight the Old Mine Open House Saturday, Sept. 18 , at Missouri Mines State Historic Site in Park Hills. Sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the open house will be held from 9 a.m. to [...]

ShareDEC. 11, 2009 — More than $70 million of funds from the nation’s largest environmental bankruptcy case in U.S. history will go towards helping remediate environmental damage in the state’s historical lead mining areas.
Missouri will receive at least $70 million of the $1.79 billion settlement due to environmental damage in the following locations:

ShareMine tailings are in the news again.
After local residents contacted environmental activist Erin Brockovich (who did not show at two locally scheduled public meetings), Doe Run Company has received an administrative order on July 31 from Region 7 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to modify a 2006 cleanup agreement with the agency, an [...]