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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Congressman McClintock questioning Gina McCarthy </b>of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a joint full committee oversight hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) spill of mine waste into the Animas River in Colorado. Joint hearing by the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The hearing was held on Thursday, September 17, 2015.

Overview

 On August 5, 2015, contractors retained by the EPA caused approximately 3 million gallons of contaminated mine water to spill into Cement Creek near Silverton, Colorado.

 The contaminated plume eventually stretched for miles, flowing from Cement Creek into the Animas and San Juan Rivers – a course that stretches from Colorado into New Mexico and eventually into Utah and Arizona. The rivers also flow along the lands of the Southern Ute Tribe and through the Navajo Nation.

 The spill released heavy metals – including arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, and selenium – into the water, affecting water quality and contaminating river sediments. Additional effects on wildlife, in particular aquatic species have yet to be fully determined.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>EPA seeks dismissal of Gold King Mine spill lawsuit</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Jerry McBride | The Durango Herald | The Associated Press) In this Aug. 6, 2015 file photo, Dan Bender, with the La Plata County Sheriff's Office, takes a water sample from the Animas River near Durango, Colo. after the accidental released of an estimated 3 million gallons of waste from the Gold King Mine by a crew led by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA says it has almost finished reviewing hundreds of damage claims from the spill, but the agency has still not released a clear accounting of the claims made for economic losses and personal injuries.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By The Associated Press</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> · </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Published: July 27 </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Updated: July 27, 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Albuquerque, N.M. • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking a federal court in New Mexico to toss out a lawsuit over a mine waste spill in Colorado that polluted rivers in three states.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The agency said in a motion this week that workers are already working on the cleanup of the accidental release of contaminated water from an EPA-monitored Colorado mine and a federal court doesn’t need to interfere.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Mexico, Utah and the Navajo Nation are suing the EPA in federal court over the spill.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2015 Gold King accident in southern Colorado occurred at an inactive mine where polluted water had been accumulating for years before am agency crew accidentally released it during cleanup work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA finds space to store sludge from Gold King Mine wastewater plant</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA finds space to store sludge from Gold King Mine wastewater plant</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawsuits against EPA contractor involved with Gold King Mine spill move ahead</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawsuits against EPA contractor involved with Gold King Mine spill move ahead</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utah’s $1.9 billion claim from Gold King Mine spill offers no specifics on estimated costs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utah’s $1.9 billion claim from Gold King Mine spill offers no specifics on estimated costs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utah joins other EPA-wary states to monitor rivers for more Gold King Mine pollution</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Utah looking for link between San Juan River, Lake Powell water quality and Gold King Mine spill</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The spill sent a yellow-orange plume of toxic heavy metals into rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah and on Native American lands.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">he gush of toxic waste that rushed out of the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, in 2015 turned the Animas River a memorable sickly yellow. It also <b>unleashed a thick cloud of confusion in many people, revealing how deeply an anti-government narrative has seeped into our public discourse.</b></font></p><div class="fb-quote fb_iframe_widget" fb-xfbml-state="rendered" fb-iframe-plugin-query="app_id=244160065790652&container_width=721&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hcn.org%2Farticles%2Fits-wrong-to-blame-the-epa-for-the-gold-king-spill&locale=en_US&sdk=joey" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; position: absolute; left: 97px; top: 357px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: 169px; height: 47px;" /></font></div><p /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is how New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez </b>explained what happened: “I can guarantee you that if a private company had caused this massive environmental disaster, the (Environmental Protection Agency) would have gone all out to hold them accountable. But when the federal government dumps millions of gallons of toxic sludge into our rivers, they shirk their responsibility and leave it up to the states to mop up the mess they created.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is the “they” that created this pollution really the federal government? Her misunderstanding has been echoed in various forms by other regional politicians and reporters. Yet if we look at the Gold King Mine disaster critically, the popular narrative that the EPA is responsible dissolves. It <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">was</em> the private sector that created the Gold King Mine, and far from being villains, it is the EPA that has been trying to clean up this ongoing, decades-in-the-making disaster.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);">The San Juan Mountains near Durango, Colorado, were one of the most productive mining areas in the United States between 1860 and 1986.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold, silver and lead were pulled from hundreds of mines on once-public lands that became privatized by miners under the Mining Law of 1872. Fortunes were made, but as soon as the market changed or ore seams ran out, the mine owners ran out, too, leaving an unmitigated mess of hundreds of abandoned mines across the mountains. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">These abandoned mines have been leaking toxic acid mineral waste into the streams of the Animas and San Juan rivers ever since. Near Silverton, 48 of 300 old mines leak toxic minerals dissolved in sulfuric acid into the Animas River every day. Federal and state officials estimate that about 1,500 gallons of acid mine drainage a day flow into the river from these Silverton-area mines</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gold King had been leaking 200 gallons of waste a minute before the EPA crew began digging to investigate the source.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These mines are draining as we speak,” Bruce Stover, director of Colorado’s Abandoned Mines Reclamation Program told the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Denver Post</em> in 2015. “We had a disaster last week — a surging amount of water coming out. That same amount of water is coming out every six months and harming the Animas (River).” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These mines belong to small and large companies alike, yet few if any mine owners (assuming they can be found) are willing to spend the millions needed to treat the toxic waste that will flow out of their mines forever and kill fish. Instead, the federal taxpayer pays for cleaning up this private-sector mess because the toxic waste is regulated under the Clean Water Act, a federal law that seeks to keep our rivers clean.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Clean Water Act is enforced by the EPA, which many conservatives have vowed to abolish. In the San Juan Mountains, the EPA and its contractors have been confronting the worst of the pollution sources. including the Gold King Mine, since the mine owners will not do the cleanup themselves. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s hard to get anyone to admit to owning the Gold King, but apparently it is the property of a California company called San Juan Mining, which blames the neighboring, connected Sunnyside Mine, owned by an international conglomerate, for the toxic waste that spilled in 2015.</b> Accidents happen, and an EPA contractor breached a leaking barrier holding back millions of gallons of acid mine waste in the Gold King. Yet even if that hadn’t happened, experts say, the barrier probably would have failed on its own with the same result — poisoned rivers and ruined irrigation waters. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2016, the Upper Animas River Basin was added to the federal <b>Superfund</b> list after local and Colorado state officials gave their approval. The EPA will continue to try to compel the mine owners to clean up their pollution, but meanwhile, the government will use federal funds to start the job. The Trump administration, however, might well block any remedial action.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather than blaming the EPA for the mine spill as Gov. Martinez has chosen to do, we could be thanking the agency for taking on the expensive and hazardous task of cleaning up a mess, on behalf of all Americans, that the private sector should have cleaned up decades ago.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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