PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge.
In 1958, Cotter Corporation, a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Edison Company of Illinois, began operating a uranium mill near Canon City, Colorado, extracting uranium from ore by an alkaline leach process. The two types of waste produced by that process, tailings, dust-like particles of ore, and raffinate, liquid recovered from the uranium extraction solutions, eventually contaminated the area, including the semi-rural community of...
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