By Shane Lasley
North of 60 Mining News
Red Dog tops EPA toxic release inventory
Federal regulator's annual report reflects scale of the world's largest lead-zinc mine, not its outstanding environmental record
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Last updated 4/26/2009 at Noon
In its largely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented Toxic Release Inventory report, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranked the Red Dog zinc mine in Northwest Alaska as the largest entity in the nation in releases of TRI reportable materials.
The EPA report, released in March 2009, reported that the world's largest zinc mine released 533.4 million pounds of primarily zinc and lea...
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