Tag: Colorado Gold Mine

EPA missed chance to prevent Colorado mine spill: Gov’t probe

Colorado mine spill fouled rivers in three states BILLINGS, Mont. – Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid. The […]