‘Incredible transformation’: Former East Helena smelter site redevelopment honored
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
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