The EPA’s effort to get Superfund cleanups completed, off the list and back to use in the community for economic development has identified one such mess in Colorado. Not surprising, it’s the Eagle Mine Superfund site sprawling across 250 acres near Vail, and the...
A Denver Post editorial evokes the Gold King “epic blunder” (of the Obama administration, least we forget) to criticize the agency’s present efforts to make Superfund actually work. It doesn’t appear to be the actual recommendations to fix Superfund that the Post has...
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt made his first appearance in front of a congressional committee that includes U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette last week. It being his first, one would imagine that she had lots of important questions to ask him about EPA Superfund cleanups in her own...
The Trump administration listed the Superfund cleanup around Silverton as a top priority and will accelerate the work being done at the sprawling site. The priority list means Silverton will get the direct attention of EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, which is only appropriate...
The EPA has been using potentially toxic material from a waste pile to build roads for their Superfund project. This happened at the same Superfund project that was declared after the EPA caused the massive mine spill in the Animas River near Silverton. Once again,...
