Ethan Barton New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court Monday over the Gold King Mine spill. Balderas filed the lawsuit on behalf of the New Mexico Environment Department, which argues the EPA’s response to the spill was inadequate, the Farmington Daily Times reported. Environmental Restoration LLC,…
Ethan Barton It appears the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no plan to protect humans and wildlife if contaminates left behind after August’s Gold King Mine spill are stirred up and reach dangerous levels. The EPA spilled 880,000 pounds of dangerous metal waste, including lead and arsenic, into the Animas River in August 2015…
Michael Bastasch Republican lawmakers have subpoenaed the Obama administration demanding information regarding the Gold King Mine blowout that contaminated rivers with millions of gallons of mine waste. House Natural Resources Committee Republicans subpoenaed the Department of the Interior and Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday night, demanding records related to the Corp’s peer review of the government’s technical evaluation…
Ethan Barton A definitive explanation for what caused the Gold King Mine disaster may never be known if the Environmental Protection Agency is not investigated just as a private company responsible for the calamitous spill would be, according to a former enforcement agent. The EPA accepted blame for the Aug. 5, 2015, leak that poisoned…