...nation's largest Superfund site. Adjacent to Butte, Mont., this abandoned mine site pollutes the Columbia and Clark Fork Rivers. Here the Bush administration has proposed to end all cleanup efforts and allow the site to pollute forever. And...

...right there. For it is something that shear shortcutting and pure profit-driven mining has upset in Montana's Clark Fork River region. Dams were built and the resulting rising waters were filled with mine tailings. Later, these same dams...

...The state is now in the midst of cleaning toxic mine residue that accumulated behind the Milltown Dam. The entire Clark Fork River has been re-routed and the cleanup will take years. And here in Great Falls, we are not even allowed to walk over...