The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1986
The Justice Department filed a proposed court order requiring Phelps Dodge Corp. to pay a $1-million civil penalty for polluting a creek at its Arizona copper mining complex and to build a water pollution control system there costing at least $8 million. The proposed consent decree, filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson, will become final after a 30-day public comment period and court approval. The decree resolves a civil complaint filed in May, 1985, charging the company with violating the Clean Water Act by dumping mine tailing and low-grade sulfide ore into Chase Creek, which flows into the San Francisco River.
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