New Mexico Sues EPA, Mine Companies Over Gold King Wastewater Spill

New Mexico is suing EPA and mining companies over an agency cleanup team's accidental spill of 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater from a former mine site, seeking repayment for cleanup and monitoring costs; a stricter federal cleanup; and enforced remediation of the site and hundreds of other former mines in Colorado. The state filed its complaint May 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, naming as defendants EPA, the contractor Environmental Restoration that was...