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EPA’s Gold King mine explanations leave gaping holes

Daily Caller | March 17, 2016 | 1:00 am Precious Metals Gold

EPA’s blows it — causes massive mine wastewater spill at Colorado rivers

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have done little to clear up unexplained aspects surrounding the Gold King Mine blowout. In fact, the agency has given shifting accounts of how three million gallons of mine waste was spilled into drinking water for three states and the Navajo Nation.

The Daily Caller News Foundation compiled these aspects of how EPA officials handled the Colorado Gold King Mine spill, which contaminated nearby rivers with 880,000 pounds of toxic metals like lead and arsenic in August, 2015.