Arco says feds should share the blame for botched mine cleanup

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By Caleb Drickey (Nov 22, 2021, 8:13 p.m. EST) – Atlantic Richfield Co. has argued that federal oversight of a botched clean-up operation at an abandoned uranium mine on tribal lands has made partially responsible for subsequent cleaning costs.

In a summary judgment motion filed Friday in federal court in New Mexico, the oil company better known as Arco argued that the federal government’s own incompetent leadership over cleanup efforts in the 1980s and 1990 had partially absolved its former partners from covering the additional costs.

“The United States… designed and implemented a cleanup effort that included, among other things, dumping [uranium] stocks in the open pit of the mine, a place where …

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