Gold King Mine
08/07/2017
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By JD Heyes
Trump EPA chief says agency “failed” miserably to “protect the environment” after major damage cause by Gold King Mine disaster
In yet another sign that President Donald J. Trump picked just the right person for the right job at the right time, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt criticized the department for “failing” big time to “protect the environment” following the disastrous Gold King Mine debacle in August 2015. Commemorating the two-year anniversary of the […]
08/02/2017
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By JD Heyes
EPA’s Gold King Mine investigation remains SECRET two years after agency blamed for environmental disaster
There is so much difference already between the Trump and Obama administrations, especially concerning transparency, but there remain some problems with federal agencies that the current occupant of the White House obviously has not yet had the time to rectify. I’m happy with President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt to head up the […]
06/21/2017
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By JD Heyes
EPA exposed: How the agency has sought to avoid ALL responsibility for the toxic Gold King Mine spill
Two years in August, a crew working for the Environmental Protection Agency unexplainably removed the rock and rubble “plug” holding back millions of gallons of toxic water at the long-abandoned Gold King Mine in Colorado. That irresponsible action led to a massive 3 million-plus gallon spill of acid mine drainage and, the EPA says, 550 […]
01/06/2017
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By JD Heyes
Everyone BUT the EPA has to pay for polluting the environment
When it comes to government regulatory agencies, you are never right and they are never wrong. That is especially true for the Environmental Protection Agency, a bureaucracy that has become weaponized, politically speaking, under Barack Obama. In August 2015, the Animas River in the southern part of Colorado and northern New Mexico was turned a […]
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