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      • Aug 22, 2019

    ASARCO's Bankruptcy

    Updated: Feb 5, 2020

    Bankruptcy as Corporate Makeover: ASARCO demonstrates how to avoid environmental responsibility

    By Mara Kardas-Nelson, Lin Nelson and Anne Fischel, reprinted with permission of Dollars and Sense magazine.


    EPA's Summary of ASARCO's bankruptcy settlement:

    https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/case-summary-asarco-2009-bankruptcy-settlement