EPA will claim sovereign immunity and the loss will be pinned on the mine owners who did nothing wrong.
-—EPA will claim sovereign immunity-—
Yup...it will be decades before NM see a single penny...
After going though multiple courts
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Wrong. The federal Clean Water Act has an absolute waiver of sovereign immunity - Section 311 if I remember correctly. That is the reason that DOE and others have been successfully sued by a variety of states.