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EPA 'accepting full responsibility' for Colorado river spill
Examiner ^
| 8/11/15
| Zack Colman
Posted on 08/11/2015 1:09:29 PM PDT by Nachum
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said her agency is "accepting full responsibility" for a contractor that accidentally spilled millions of gallons of polluted water last week into western Colorado's Animas River, where cleanup efforts are ongoing as federal officials seek to maintain contamination.
The Aug. 5 spill occurred when an agency contractor operating heavy machinery punctured a barrier holding back water containing mining tailings at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colo. Three million gallons of water polluted with heavy metals poured into the river and turned it orange, and the tainted water spread into New Mexico and Utah.
Republicans and local residents have attacked the agency for what they called a slow response to the spill. McCarthy, who said that she expects lawsuits, said the agency is "absolutely deeply sorry" and is using the "full depth and breadth of the agency" to address the "tragic" event.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colorado; epa; erinbrockovich; goldkingmine; navajonation; responsibility; spill; water
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To: mad_as_he$$
....ongoing as federal officials seek to maintain contamination.
Slip? Or WTF?
Someone posted a link to their "mitigation" plan last night. I'm sorry I don't have the link now.
Their plan consists of lots of meetings and water testing. They also have plans to coordinate more meetings. In other words, they have no plan at all. Everyone downstream is on their own.
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posted on
08/11/2015 3:38:32 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
To: Nachum
So they’re going to reimburse everyone who suffers financial damage due to this effup? lol sure
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posted on
08/11/2015 3:42:58 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: Robert357
I agree......they’ll skate. They’re not part of the regular population. Different rules for them and us........makes me sick!!!!
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posted on
08/11/2015 3:55:58 PM PDT
by
Dawgreg
(Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
To: Nachum
Not only accept responsibility, but fund the clean up with the budget allocated to the EPA. Send the former employees of the EPA home and disband that bunch of losers.
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08/11/2015 4:10:36 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Personal Responsibility
How will she ever recover?She'll get a perm and new makeup, just in time for an apology tour on all the Sunday shows.
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posted on
08/11/2015 4:16:38 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: hal ogen
“liberal friends????? Whats that?”
Friends with their heads screwed on backwards.
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posted on
08/11/2015 4:22:14 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Trump campaign ad: Trump, in his Apprentice chair, saying "America, you're hired")
To: Ezekiel
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posted on
08/11/2015 5:59:33 PM PDT
by
444Flyer
(How long O LORD?)
To: kaktuskid
“Southwest Colo is always treated as the bastard child of the rest of the state!”
So is everything outside of Denver.
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posted on
08/11/2015 8:27:28 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: Ezekiel
! // 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. //
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posted on
08/14/2015 5:14:51 AM PDT
by
cyn
(Benghazi.)
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