EPA Defends Mine Spill Response But Sidesteps Queries Over Tort Claims

February 24, 2016
EPA in response to queries from Senate Republicans is offering a broad defense of its actions before and after an agency cleanup team spilled 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at a former mine in Colorado last year, though officials are sidestepping queries over how they will address a host of pending tort claims related to the spill. In a Feb. 18 letter to the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) obtained by Inside EPA , the agency says...


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