Three million gallons of acidic mine drainage flooded into the Animas River basin 10 years ago, turning the southern Colorado river a mustard yellow and making international headlines. Caused by ...
Despite spending tens of millions of dollars, the EPA work hasn’t amounted to much of a change for the Animas River and surrounding mining district Tuesday, Aug. 5, marks the 10th anniversary of the ...
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog says there is an ongoing criminal investigation into last year's massive wastewater spill from an abandoned Colorado gold mine. The ...
It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it made national news. The metallic color came from the Gold King Mine, near the town of ...