Oct 22, 2015
There are times when we cannot improve upon perfection. This is one of those times: BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine,...
Sep 17, 2015
Sweet Gods of Karma, we cried nerd tears of joy today watching the EPA getting nailed for violating the sacred Endangered Species Act for their negligence in the Animas River spill. Turns out that it is very illegal, as in, criminal and civil charges illegal, when...
Sep 15, 2015
Remember when EPA Chief Gina McCarthy said last month that all EPA mine cleanups nationwide had been suspended “unless there is imminent risk” to doing so? And then declined to tell the nation which mines had been affected? The agency then set to work identifying...
Sep 10, 2015
Judging by the Denver Post’s summary of yesterday’s hearing on the EPA’s Animas River spill, we must have been watching a different event. Their article described it as “more of a food fight than a debate, featuring Republicans generally blasting the agency and...
Sep 9, 2015
Congress began hearings today on the EPA river spill and first up was the Science panel on which only one member of the Colorado delegation sits – the maddeningly and embarrassingly ineffectual Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter. For all the good he did, Perlmutter should...
