Archive for category: East Helena Media Coverage

By Allie Kaiser and John Riley, KTVH, September 23, 2025. Read the full story and watch the video here.

By Helena Independent Record, August 8, 2025  Read the article here.

Pictured (from left to right) are Mary Hollow (Executive Director, Prickly Pear Land Trust), Jacob Kuntz (Executive Director, Helena Area Habitat for Humanity), Kelly Harris (Mayor, City of East Helena), Cynthia Brooks (Managing Principal, Montana Environmental Trust Group [METG]), Jennifer Roberts (Director of Financial Affairs, METG), and Max Greenblum (Senior Assistant Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] Region 8).

These project team members and partners received the prestigious Phoenix Award for EPA Region 8 on August 7, 2025, at the National Brownfields Conference in Chicago in recognition of their collaboration on the cleanup and revitalization of the former ASARCO smelter site and lands in East Helena, Montana.

Photo courtesy of Montana Environmental Trust Group

By Madelyn Heath, KRTV3, May 14, 2025. See the full story here.

By Phil Drake, Helena Independent Record, May 2, 2025. Read the full article and see the video here.

By Phil Drake, Helena Independent Record, March 28, 2025.
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Mark Rhodes of Hydrometrics leads a tour of the East Helena Superfund site from atop the slag pile on March 11, 2025. THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record