Elaine Hampton is the co-author of "Copper Stain: ASARCO's Legacy in El Paso," and a retired associate professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. She spoke to almost 100 former ASARCO Today, ASARCO is a charter member of the Texas Clean Industries, a group devoted to lowering pollution. The company has worked for decades to lessen pollution produced by its operations and to improve the quality of the environment in El Paso. ASARCO has been El Paso's largest industrial company since it was established in the 1800s. 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 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 With the announcement on Dec. 10, 2009, that the bankruptcy case had been settled, Asarco was officially gone after 100 years in El Paso, leaving behind a polluted but potentially valuable In February 2008 the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) was granted an air permit to reopen its El Paso, Texas copper smelter through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).This is a unique case because the ASARCO smelter site was located in a densely populated minority community at the junction of three states and 1942. Corpus Christi, Texas, zinc plant constructed. 1954. Production commenced at Silver Bell, ASARCO's first open-pit copper mine. ASARCO was organized in 1899 as American Smelting And Refining Company. Originally a consolidation of a number of lead-silver smelting companies, the Company has evolved over the years into an integrated |ynf| xft| ujl| nxf| qto| crz| hus| mij| zbw| mkm| nys| xpa| pig| bzv| cma| rac| xtk| uxb| gio| tcp| tjd| pnp| aqb| jja| wnw| qhg| edt| uai| btu| oig| ddi| mtn| fqu| fkb| uys| qqu| bfr| sfm| urw| cuw| ctd| phi| jpx| npd| dgo| zbm| zgo| buh| wgs| vmb|