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In Kellogg, Idaho, the Bunker Hill Company's smelter was the town's sole major employer. Following a 1974 public health crisis where children were found to have dangerously high lead levels, a conflict arose. The company withheld its own lead emission test results and threatened to close the plant unless environmental regulations were relaxed. The company ultimately executed this shutdown option in 1981, leading to devastating economic consequences for the community, including mass unemployment, a collapse in property values to one-third of their previous level, and a severe funding crisis for local schools that relied on property taxes.
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