Russian Billionaire Is Cleaning Up in Nation’s Dirtiest City
- Potanin may cut sulfur emissions more than million tons a year
- Modernizing Nornickel assets to boost profit and pollute less
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Vladimir Potanin makes an unlikely environmentalist.
The Russian tycoon, worth $17 billion at last count, derives half his wealth from a mine operator that’s the biggest polluter in the nation’s dirtiest city.