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Colorado, the U.S. government and a gold mining company have agreed to resolve a longstanding dispute over who’s responsible for cleanup at a Superfund site that was established after a massive 2015 spill of hazardous mine waste. 
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EPA crews conducting Superfund cleanup prep investigations along Animas River headwaters revealed this week that they’ve found contamination at century-old mine sites at levels 100 times higher than danger thresholds for wildlife.
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Last week the Environmental Protection Agency released a report of its latest findings from the Gold King Mine Spill that occurred in August 2015.
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The Environmental Protection Agency won't repay claims totaling over $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency ac…
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The Environmental Protection Agency said it remains fully responsible for the toxic wastewater spill it caused one year ago in Colorado, while remaining silent on demands for someone at the agency to be held responsible...
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Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid.
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Weighing the impact of the Gold King Mine spill – and hundreds of inactive mines like it Ronald R H Cohen, Colorado School of Mines Earlier this month, contractors for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) trying to characterize the quantity… Continue Reading →
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The inspector general for the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the cause of a massive spill from an abandoned Colorado gold mine that unleashed 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into rivers that supply water to at least three states.
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A million-gallon mine waste spill that sent a plume of orange-ish muck down a river in southwest Colorado on Thursday was caused by a federal mine cleanup crew.
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The U. S. government settled a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the state of Utah over a mine waste spill caused by federal workers that sent wastewater downstream to several states from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado five years ago. Utah's lawsuit was one of several legal claims filed over the incident, but no other settlements have been reached. FILE - In this Aug.
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North Utah County water officials have agreed to pay the state more than $145,000 for discharging sediment laced with heavy metals into the American Fork River below Tibble Fork Reservoir last fall. The North Uta
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyon Friday denied $1.2 billion in claims for economic lossesstemming from a 2015 toxic wastewater spill accidentallytriggered by the agency at a defunct Colorado mine, that fouledwaterways in three states.
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No criminal charges will be filed against a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee over a 3-million gallon spill of toxic waste from a defunct Colorado gold mine that fouled waterways across three states, federal authorities said on Wednesday.
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The Environmental Protection Agency's disclosure this week that last year's toxic spill at Gold King Mine was far worse than previously stated has unleashed a flood of anger at the agency, which was already facing numerous lawsuits from states and individuals along the affected waterways.
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In the aftermath of the massive Aug. 5 wastewater spill at the Gold King Mine , there have been renewed and constant calls for a treatment facility at the
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Federal and state officials wrongly concluded there was little or no pressure from the millions of gallons of water trapped inside the inactive Gold King mine, the report says.
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Toxicologists say health effects could be felt for many years from heavy metals such as lead and mercury that spilled into the Animas River in Colorado.
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Conservation groups decry EPA's lax response Staff Report FRISCO — Conservation advocates say the EPA's cavalier response to a toxic spill from a mine near Silverton, Colorado shows a disregard for...
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