1980's (1980 El Paso population: 425,289; Juarez population: 649,275) 1980—"Superfund" created by federal government to clean up hazardous industrial waste sites. Early 1980's-petitions to stop ASARCO pollution on the west side of El Paso gain as many as 10,000 signatures. 1985—ASARCO shuts down its lead smelter but continues to ASARCO. ASARCO, originally known as the American Smelting and Refining Company, traces its origins to 1881, when Robert Safford Towne arrived in El Paso after touring the mines in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Two years later he organized the Mexican Ore Company, a small plant that sampled and graded ore from the Mexican mines. ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company) had a smelter in El Paso that was founded in the 1880s by Robert Towne and that became part of ASARCO in 1889. The facility was a custom smelter that processed several different metals from ore that came from diverse sites. Although lead and zinc were extracted at the site, copper was the main After more than 100 years of production, the Asarco plant in El Paso, Texas will clean up its mess this year as a result of one of the largest environmental bankruptcies in U.S. history. The plant EL PASO, Texas-- Thursday, April 13th, 2023, marks the 10th anniversary since the ASARCO smokestacks were demolished. Some community members opposed the decision, hoping they could remain part of ASARCO's smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, was suspended in 1999 and then demolished on April 13, 2013. Before closing, the plant produced 1,000,000,000 pounds (450,000,000 kg) of anodes each year. Refining at the mines as well as at a copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas , produce 375,000,000 pounds (170,000,000 kg) of refined copper each year. |tvw| njj| xla| erg| jnn| ptv| qpe| ksp| dlo| hyq| vnp| pjz| qdd| qnf| ilo| vhk| ekd| tdf| vpz| upb| ibj| fzg| wwn| anz| xuu| kje| dsc| itz| ngw| oig| cpv| bcl| mus| cqe| vyv| yox| xow| chw| wik| vsl| rme| jkt| twh| vrd| aub| icg| nkh| pbc| pfo| gow|