After an award-winning summer of journalism for KFSK in Petersburg, Nora Saks returned to the University of Montana to complete a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism.

For the past year she has been developing this podcast about the past, present and future of one of America’s most notorious Superfund sites in Butte Montana.

If you don’t know Butte Montana, you might have heard it’s one of the biggest toxic messes in the country. But now the “mining city” is on the verge of sealing a deal that could clean it up once and for all.

So how did we get here? What comes after Superfund? And who gets to decide?

Find out on Richest Hill, a new podcast from Montana Public Radio coming March 5, 2019.