84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.

Picher, Oklahoma, is emblematic of what happens when a mining boomtown goes bust. When the minerals were exhausted, companies left or went bankrupt. Slab, former home of Gloria and Tom Workman.

The state of Oklahoma and the federal government have decided it is too dangerous to let the town’s people continue to live there. Picher, once a thriving lead and zinc mining community ...

Trucks loaded with thousands of pounds of chat continue to roll out of Picher as crews work to remediate what was once one of the most toxic ...

University of Oklahoma (OU) researchers, in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Community Deep ...

84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.