After years of polluting and contaminating the environment, the American Smelting and Refining Company’s notorious copper-smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, will be cleaned up this year. Asarco will also pay $1.79 billion to settle claims for pollution at more than 80 sites throughout the country.

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