In a key development in a long-running Superfund environmental cleanup effort, Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to pay for and finish the remediation of the Anaconda Smelter Superfund site in southwestern Montana, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Dept. of Justice announced.
Under a consent decree lodged in the U.S. District Court in Butte, Mont., on Sept. 30, the company, now part of British Petroleum, has pledged to complete the cleanup work it has been performing at the 300-sq-mile Anaconda site under EPA directives issued since the 1990s.