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Cities across the country are converting poisoned industrial land into ballfields and greenways, celebrating the savings and the greenery. But a park is not a cleanup — and the communities living on top of these engineered caps deserve to know exactly what bargain they've struck.
Across the American West, tens of thousands of abandoned hardrock mines sit in a legal gray zone where no one will accept responsibility for cleanup. We trace one Colorado site's decade of delay to understand who benefits from the ambiguity — and who pays for it.
Across the country, former Superfund sites are being transformed into housing, parks, and commercial corridors. But when cleanup schedules collide with urgent housing demand, who bears the risk — and who reaps the reward?