Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Doe Run Smelter Stack Looms Over Herculaneum

The jury awards $320 million for punitive damages for contaminating Herculaneum. See the St. Louis Post Dispatch story for details.

Jury finds contamination due to smelter. Awards $38.5 million.

See the St. Louis Post Dispatch story here.

Doe Run Smelter Stack Looms Over Herculaneum

The Post Dispatch reports that Doe Run Resources Corp. is keeping their operations in Herculaneum, Missouri and siting their new, cleaner lead smelting process in the Mississippi River town that has hosted their facility for decades. We applaud this move because the new process will be significantly cleaner in its air emissions than the old smelter that is scheduled to be dismantled in 2013.