Editing Laramie, Wyoming (section)

==Environmental problems==
According to a 2012 report by the [[Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality]] (DEQ), a former industrial site for the production of aluminum, arsenic acid, strategic metals and cement now owned by L.C. Holdings, {{convert|2|mi|km}} south of Laramie had [[arsenic]] concentrations in on-site water well samples 3,100-times higher than DEQ cleanup levels.<ref name=LB>{{cite news|author1=CHILTON TIPPIN|title=DEQ overseeing cleanup of site south of Laramie|url=http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2014/04/12/news/doc5348beb345870676992229.txt|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140827170434/http://www.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2014/04/12/news/doc5348beb345870676992229.txt|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 27, 2014|access-date=August 27, 2014|work=Laramie Boomerang|publisher=Cheyenne Newspapers Inc|date=April 12, 2014}}</ref> The site has been storing a 1,000-ton pile of contaminated flue dust from [[Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex]], an Idaho [[superfund site]], under a tarp since the 1980s.<ref name=LB/> In 2011 L.C. Holdings entered the DEQ's "Voluntary Remediation Program".