There’s greed … and then there’s the nauseating greed of profiteering polluters, corporations that make a killing — literally — by knowingly contaminating people’s water, air, land and families.

Such rank moral corruption is hard to fathom, but it’s not hard to find. For one breathtaking example, consider Freeport-McMoRan.

This global mining behemoth is one of America’s most aggressive spoilers of land, air, water and health — including from its sprawling copper smelter near Phoenix, Ariz. This operation is a major spreader of lead pollution, a neurotoxin that’s particularly harmful to children, causing pain, seizures and learning disabilities.

But wait, where’s our Environmental Protection Agency? Good question. In fact, until last year, EPA was requiring Freeport to install technology to cut those poisonous emissions. The giant squealed like a stuck pig,........

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