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06/21/2017 / By JD Heyes

EPA exposed: How the agency has sought to avoid ALL responsibility for the toxic Gold King Mine spill

Two years in August, a crew working for the Environmental Protection Agency unexplainably removed the rock and rubble “plug” holding back millions of gallons of toxic water at the long-abandoned Gold King Mine in Colorado. That irresponsible action led to a massive 3 million-plus gallon spill of acid mine drainage and, the EPA says, 550 […]

01/06/2017 / By JD Heyes

Everyone BUT the EPA has to pay for polluting the environment

When it comes to government regulatory agencies, you are never right and they are never wrong. That is especially true for the Environmental Protection Agency, a bureaucracy that has become weaponized, politically speaking, under Barack Obama. In August 2015, the Animas River in the southern part of Colorado and northern New Mexico was turned a […]

08/16/2016 / By usafeaturesmedia

EPA to finally be held responsible for Gold King Mine toxic waste spill

(BigGovernment.news) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ponied up more than $1 million last week to reimburse affected communities, a year after an EPA-led remediation operation at a Colorado mine backfired and sent three million gallons of toxic water into nearby waterways. The EPA’s Office of Inspector General has also confirmed that it is conducting a criminal […]

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