Posted on 04/28/2016 3:23:39 PM PDT by jazusamo
DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency came under fire Thursday after an official said the agency would not fully cover a Colorado county’s expenses stemming from the EPA-caused toxic wastewater spill at the Gold King Mine.
Colorado Republicans blasted the agency after the Durango Herald reported that an EPA official nixed some of La Plata County’s proposed cooperative agreement for $2.4 million in spill-related costs over 10 years at a Wednesday board of county commissioners meeting.
Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, described the report as “outrageous” and “yet another example of the Washington double standard,” adding that he would work to ensure that the agency compensates the region for “property damage and lost economic opportunity.”
“The EPA must keep its promise to the people of Colorado and abide by the standards it expects of others,” Mr. Gardner said in a statement. “I’ll do everything I can to ensure La Plata County, San Juan County, affected tribal communities, and my constituents are fully compensated and the EPA is held wholly accountable for its negligence.”
Bill Murray, Superfund remedial program director, told county commissioners that the cooperative-agreement program was not designed to cover anticipated expenses such as monitoring of spill effects and water quality, according to the Herald.
He also said the agency had cut off reimbursement for response costs stemming from the Aug. 5 spill after ending its emergency-response activities Oct. 31.
“The intent is not that this co-op agreement would cover future activities,” Mr. Murray said. “For Superfund sites, we don’t often have future costs included. The program is not designed to provide for a lot of what is in there.”
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I still don’t understand why the STATE did not Charge ALL OF THEM CRIMINALLY. Including the clowns in DC that gave or approved the order,
Hey Governor Moron of Colorado, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO PUT THEM IN PRISON
The EPA not only deliberately (in my view) caused this fiasco and has held no one responsible but refuses to cover costs.
Gov. Hickenlooper is definitely a moron.
Being a Democrat and worshipping government seems to involve luxuries of being able to refuse to help Colorado clean up a mess that the EPA created to begin with and (separately) be angry with Rick Snyder and demand his resignation over the tainted Flint water, which was caused largely by corrupt and incompetent Democrats. Am I following this properly?
So from this EPA refusal I infer that the citizens of La Plata County did not vote for Bath House in 2012 or in 2008.
the epa forced GE to clean up the hudson river at a massive cost- for dumping PCB’s into the river-
But apparently the EPA isn’t bound by it’s own regulations- They are above the law apparently
JAIL !!
Heck, Colorado should just stop sending federal taxes to the amount of the clean up and say “come and get it if you can”.
And they should arrest any EPA agent/employee that steps foot in the state; and hold them criminally liable for the whole thing, no matter who they are.
the EPA has the attitude so what, sue us
Yes, they voted for him twice. 57-41% for Zero in 2008 and 53-44% in 2012.
Not the only Colorado river that the EPA intentionally dumped toxic waste into last year.
The EPA cares not about clean water nor power, their real agenda is more taxpayer money and power [ thru superfund designations ].
Wow! Great information. Thanks.
So why is Bath House screwing his own voters over? Because they are white? Maybe just because he can?
Maybe a payment would be an admission of .gov failure, and that can not ever be admitted.
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Not to worry trump will take care of these bastards
Hickenlooper is Obama’s butt boy. He’ll do whatever Zero wants him to do.
”EPA [emphasis added] slammed after refusing to cover Colorado county’s costs from toxic spill"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s ArgumentPatriots, please bear in mind that the Founding States gave the “power of the purse” (1.7.1) uniquely to the House of Representatives. So Congress and the executive branch, not the constitutitionally undefined EPA, should be deciding this matter imo.
This issue is a good example of federal lawmakers not only stealing 10th Amendment-protected state powers and associated state revenues to deal with INTRAstate environmental issues, but wrongly delegating such stolen powers and revenues to non-elected federal bureaucrats in blatant defiance of the Constitution’s Sections 1-3 of Article I.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
By abdicating their constitutional responsibilites to non-elected bureaucrats, corrupt lawmakers can keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots into reelecting them.
In other words, the EPA is one of Congress’s many “useful idiots.”
Remember in November!
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutionally delegating legislative powers and unconstitutional taxes, particularly such stolen from the states, to people outside the legislative branch.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Pretty much
Thanks george76
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