Energy Future Holdings cleanup deal greases bankruptcy process

摘要

Texas' largest power company will pay to clean up abandoned uranium mines if federal prosecutors drop their objections to one of the biggest bankruptcies in American history, according to a settlement filed late Tuesday. Energy Future Holdings Corp. will pay $2 million to clean up four shuttered uranium mines in northwest New Mexico. Owned by subsidiaries, the mines' radioactive pollution have caused groundwater contamination and abnormally high rates of cancer and birth defects in neighboring Navajo communities.