EPA Faces Push-Back Citing Tort Ruling As Defense In Gold King Spill Suit

New Mexico and tribal governments suing EPA over its role in the 2015 Gold King Mine wastewater spill are fighting the agency's invocation of an appellate ruling finding narrow federal liability for harms committed in the course of a Superfund cleanup, arguing in a new filing that the Gold King spill “is nothing like” that case. The Dec. 11 response filing in the mine spill case In re: Gold King Mine Release in San Juan County, Colorado, on August 5,...