house sciencemittee grills epa over gold king mine spill

Toad Haul Manor Journal: October 2015

The pollution remediation to the Gold King mine accident is well underway at a cost to taxpayers of about $1,000,000 per year. This is just a temporary fix to the widespread problem of abandoned hard rock mine acid drainage. It would likely take $50 BILLION Get price

Federal Water Tap, December 5: Army Corps Denies

Gold King Lawsuit The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to submit a brief on a lawsuit over the Gold King mine spill, the Associated Press reports. New Mexico sued Colorado for the August 2015 release of heavy metals into the Animas River that was triggered by an EPA crew. Get price

HEARING ON NOMINATION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

Gold King Mine spill and Flint, Michigan's water crisis. Those disasters hurt people, many from low-income and minority communities who can least afford it. As I have discussed with Attorney General Pruitt, my home State of Wyoming is a leading energy Get price

House committee to hold first hearing into Gold King Mine

2015/9/8The scene of the spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado. Photo from EPA The House Science Committee holds the first hearing into the Gold King Mine spill tomorrow. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) chairs the committee. He said the Environmental Protection Agency has not fully disclosed the impacts of the August 5 spill that sent about 3 million gallons of toxic mine waste into the water Get price

Major Northern California Event Exposes Global Climate

The spill was caused after the EPA was investigating the abandoned Gold King Mine on Wednesday together with the state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. They accidentally breached a debris dam that had formed inside the mine and this triggered the release of the waste into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River in San Juan County. Get price

Congress wades into toxic mine spill caused by EPA crew

For some Democrats, the Gold King spill underscored the urgency of expanding that effort to include so-called hardrock mining. "What happened in the Animas has the potential to happen all over the West," said Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, which plans a September 17 hearing on the mine accident. Get price

Major Northern California Event Exposes Global Climate

The spill was caused after the EPA was investigating the abandoned Gold King Mine on Wednesday together with the state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. They accidentally breached a debris dam that had formed inside the mine and this triggered the release of the waste into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River in San Juan County. Get price

EPA has not punished anyone for toxic spill at Colorado

2015/12/10No EPA employee disciplined for toxic spill at Colorado mine As for that last scandal, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a Congressional committee she never even yelled at anyone at the EPA for allowing millions of gallons of orange waste to flow into the Animas River. Get price

Udall, Heinrich: New Mexico Priorities Pass the Senate in

Gold King Mine: The bill includes $4 million for the EPA to continue monitoring water quality in areas affected by the Gold King Mine spill, and includes language directing the EPA to continue to work in consultation with affected states and Tribes on a long-term Get price

The EPA Gold Standard Compared to Marcellus Shale

Rather than express outrage as it has done in the wake of previous environmental disasters, the White House would not comment on the spill and instead directed all questions to the embattled EPA. The agency, meanwhile, remains under intense fire after its contractors accidentally breached a dam at the mine last week and sent toxic sludge flowing into the Animas River. Get price

Mine Owner Calls EPA Official's Testimony 'Absolute

Gold King Mine owner Todd Hennis is calling the testimony of EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus at Wednesday's House Science Committee hearing "absolute baloney of the worst kind." In his testimony, EPA's Stanislaus told the committee "[t]his [blowout] was a Get price

Jordan Candler: Congress to EPA: How 'Bout Some

2015/9/9It's now been over a month since the Environmental Protection Agency breached a retaining wall at Colorado's Gold King Mine that sent a deadly concoction of heavy metals into a nearby tributary. Despite conflicting evidence and limited public discourse, the EPA says the potential harmful effects have diminished, but some territories, such as the Navajo Nation, aren't convinced. Get price

Uranium mining and the Navajo people

Gold King Mine Spill On August 5, 2015, the Animas and the San Juan River were affected by the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado, when the EPA tried to drain the water near the entrance of the mine. About 3 million gallons of water seeped out in a blowout The Get price

House Committee Grills Secretary Jewell on Gold King

House Committee Grills Secretary Jewell on Gold King Mine Spill Mintzes December 14, 2015 On Wednesday, Congress held its fifth hearing on the August 5 spill of 3 million gallons of toxic mine drainage in to Colorado's Animas River. Get price

Trapped in the wrong trouser

Now despite the temperature of a house going up and down a bit over time, after one full day, or month or even a year, it's temperature is the same. Say it's 18 degrees on the first of January. on the thirty first of December, its temperature crosses 18 degrees again. Get price

EPA Chief Plans Japan Trip As Congress Demands She

2015/8/21At least one Utah lawmaker has suggested the EPA intentionally spilled waste from the Gold King Mine to get the area declared as a Superfund site. State attorneys general were also frustrated with the EPA for not sharing certain information about the spill, including the federal contractor working on the mine when the waste was released. Get price

EPA withholds toxic mine spill documents from Congress

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee gave the EPA until Tuesday morning to hand over documents surrounding the agency's clean-up effort. The EPA failed to produce a single document. On August 5 EPA contractors triggered the release of 3-million gallons of toxic waste water – containing arsenic, lead, copper and cadmium – from the Gold King mine into the Animas river near Get price

EPA dumps 1 Million gallons of toxic mine waste into River

2015/8/10EPA wanted to make the Gold King Mine a Superfund Site but locals balking at the thought. Why the EPA was there it was already polluting ground water. Did hear though that the spill may be 3 million gallons rather than the originally thought 1 million. Phil Get price

#AnimasRiver: US House hearing on #GoldKing mine spill

2015/9/10Area near Gold King mine immediately after spill — photo EPA via The Durango Herald From the Albuquerque Journal (Michael Coleman): House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, called the actions of federal and contract workers who accidentally unleashed mining waste into the river at the abandoned Gold King mine near Silverton, Colo. "inexcusable." Get price

EPA withholds mine spill documents from Congress

"It is disappointing, but not surprising, that the EPA failed to meet the House Science Committee's reasonable deadline in turning over documents pertaining to the Gold King Mine spill," said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). "These documents are essential to the Get price

When the EPA Was Really Corrupt

2018/4/3Causing the Gold King Mine spill: In 2015, EPA workers destroyed a plug that was holding water at the abandoned Gold King Mine in Colorado. Despite knowing the risk of a blowout (and subsequently covering up the fact they had that knowledge), the work continued at the abandoned mine until a breach unleashed three million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River, polluting a Get price

Hearing convened on Colorado toxic spill

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the Space and Technology Committee chairman, recently convened the first congressional hearing on the actions that took place at the Gold King Mine in Colorado on Aug. 5. The incident at the mine resulted in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spilling over 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas River. Get price

EPA withholds toxic mine spill documents from Congress

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee gave the EPA until Tuesday morning to hand over documents surrounding the agency's clean-up effort. The EPA failed to produce a single document. On August 5 EPA contractors triggered the release of 3-million gallons of toxic waste water – containing arsenic, lead, copper and cadmium – from the Gold King mine into the Animas river near Get price

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2015/9/10Area near Gold King mine immediately after spill — photo EPA via The Durango Herald From the Albuquerque Journal (Michael Coleman): House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, called the actions of federal and contract workers who accidentally unleashed mining waste into the river at the abandoned Gold King mine near Silverton, Colo. "inexcusable." Get price

Trapped in the wrong trouser

Now despite the temperature of a house going up and down a bit over time, after one full day, or month or even a year, it's temperature is the same. Say it's 18 degrees on the first of January. on the thirty first of December, its temperature crosses 18 degrees again. Get price