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New Mexico sues EPA, mine owners over massive gold mine waste spill

2016-05-24 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: New Mexico sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an agency contractor and two mining companies on Monday over the 2015 breach of an abandoned Colorado gold mine that spilled some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into three states. The Gold King Mine rupture, which was accidentally triggered by an EPA inspection team called there to inspect seepage, unleashed a torrent of yellow sludge that contained high concentrations of heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead. New Mexico,...

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