Federal agencies and states renegotiate with the company, and the largest environmental bankruptcy in American history yields a landmark settlement: $1.79 billion.[37] The money will go to nineteen states, but the largest pot, $435 million, is collected by Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Basin to clean up Uncle Bunker’s mess, where 1,500 square miles of land and water have been carpeted with up to thirty tons of lead per square mile.[38]
