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Arsenic Cleanup

Mine operator Sterling Centrecorp must pay $32 million to cover the government’s cleanup costs at a gold mine in the Sierra Nevada mountains which contaminated local groundwater with dangerous levels of arsenic, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mine operator Sterling Centrecorp must pay $32 million to cover the government’s cleanup costs at a gold mine in the Sierra Nevada mountains which contaminated local groundwater with dangerous levels of arsenic, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

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