May 27, 2021
A BP America subsidiary is on the hook to immediately pay mining company Asarco $15.3 million plus a $1 million sanction, as well as 25% of future costs for its share of cleaning up a Montana Superfund site, a federal judge has ruled.
February 05, 2021
Asarco told a Montana federal court in its closing argument on Friday that Atlantic Richfield must immediately contribute toward a budgeted $25 million cleanup of a refining complex, saying that the court shouldn't be waiting for "trumpets to sound" to announce final costs.
February 04, 2021
Mining giant Asarco went to court Thursday to argue that some $25 million in budgeted future cleanup costs for an arsenic-leaching metal-refining site in Montana is concrete enough to force Atlantic Richfield Co. to help pay.
June 27, 2018
A Montana federal judge ruled Tuesday that mining firm Asarco LLC can recoup nearly $28 million from oil company Atlantic Richfield Co. to partly cover the arsenic cleanup at a Superfund site, agreeing with Asarco that it had more-reliable experts and was more forthcoming about the pollution.
August 26, 2014
A Montana federal judge on Tuesday tossed mining company Asarco LLC's bid to recoup part of a $99 million settlement over a contaminated metals refinery, ruling Asarco had waited too long to seek help from other allegedly polluting companies to fund the deal.
December 03, 2012
A federal judge on Friday said Asarco LLC's bid to recoup part of a $113 million settlement over a contaminated Montana metals refinery can proceed, rejecting American Chemet Corp.'s and Atlantic Richfield Co.'s argument that the claim is time-barred.