Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Silver Valley decontamination begins

  May 16, 2012 in Idaho on Page A5 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 …

• Hecla Mining Co. settles Superfund cleanup lawsuit

  June 14, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 The owner of Idaho’s oldest operating silver mine agreed to pay $263.4 million plus interest to clean up historic mine waste in the Coeur d’Alene Basin, resolving one of the … 1

• Meyer to oversee mine cleanup

  November 14, 2010 in City on Page B7 A $447 million trust established to pay for Superfund cleanup in the Coeur d’Alene River basin has hired its first full-time employee. Dan Meyer will start work Jan. 1. He …

• Coeur d’Alene Basin mine waste deal huge

  December 11, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Cleanup of mine waste in the Coeur d’Alene Basin got a $583 million shot in the arm Thursday, when Asarco Inc. agreed to settle environmental claims at 80 toxic sites …

• Asarco will pay $436 million to clean up CdA pollution

  December 10, 2009 in News, Idaho Asarco Inc. will pay $436 million to cleanup decades of mining waste in the Coeur d’Alene Basin, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. 1

• 1 river, 320 miles

  July 12, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 Drift boat anchors are destined to be the new heavy metals in the upper Clark Fork River. “Undoing 150 years of mining, smelting and agricultural abuse will not be fast …