Conclusion

The Omaha Lead Site and the chronology of the Omaha Superfund Program, still ongoing, are relevant to environmental justice. 

All negotiated reparations - both the money that the responsible companies paid and the services that they funded in the form of Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance - are forms of corrective justice, and efforts to "right" a wrong that was imposed on the people of Omaha.

Discussion of the EPA's success in making responsible parties pay reveals the extent to which the remediation of the Omaha Lead Site has provided environmental justice to the people of Omaha. Though the EPA forced the responsible parties to partially pay for the remediation of the OLS, the fact remains that the amount paid was far below the cost of remediating the site. Most importantly, ASARCO paid less than 50% of the amount the government estimated they were responsible for. The rest of these costs were paid through the taxes of the citizens of the United States. Though the EPA did attempt to provide environmental justice in the remediation of the Omaha Lead Site, much of the cost of remediation was still born by the people of the United States. Forcing tax payers to subsidize the damaging and irresponsible behavior of polluting corporation certainly does not represent the provision of environmental justice in the case of the Omaha Lead Site.