Mining company, UP back in court over Coeur d’Alene clean up costs

October 31, 2017

(Source: Spokesman-Review, October 30, 2017)

BOISE, Idaho — Eight years after paying out $482 million to fund cleanup from a century of mining contamination in North Idaho’s Silver Valley, the copper mining firm Asarco is back in court, demanding that Union Pacific Railroad pay it $130 million because it contends the railroad caused a big piece of the damage. The railroad is furiously denying the claim.