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Proving that there will truly be no end to the punnery even at the price of mining second-rate game shows, The Veritones and Callbacks team up for “Jamily Feud” tonight. Promotional posters for the event seem alternately inspired by Mortal Combat, The Lord of...
With the EPA's clout slackening, private attorneys are moving in. At Tar Creek, lawyers are suing seven mining companies on behalf of scores of lead-exposed children. A separate suit demanding a cleanup was filed by the Quapaw Indians, whose land was leased for the mines. And environmentalist Robert...
But the grimmest legacy of a century of intensive lead and zinc mining are the "lead heads," or "chat rats," as the kids who grew up around here are known. As toddlers, they played in sandboxes of chat--the powdery output of mills after ore is extracted from rock. As...
Tar Creek is a case in point. Two decades after it was targeted on the very first Superfund priority list, the 40-sq.-mi. site is worse off than ever. Early on, the government confined its effort to the polluted creek, without looking at chat piles, soil, air quality or...
Stock pickers should consider steel (Nucor, International Steel Group), fertilizer (Agrium), farm equipment (Deere), coal (Peabody), precious metals (Newmont Mining), paper goods (International Paper, MeadWestvaco) and energy (ExxonMobil). Then, when the prices you pay at the counter go up, so should your portfolio.