All posts tagged with Gold King Mine

(Natural News) 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 […]

(Natural News) 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 […]

(Natural News) 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 […]

(Natural News) 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 […]

(Natural News) You have to hand it to the Environmental Protection Agency; when it comes to hypocrisy, they do it right. The Associated Press reported in recent days that officials at the EPA – arguably one of the most bothersome of all federal agencies – will begin requiring mining companies to demonstrate that they have […]

(Natural News) If you or I – or any citizen, really – had done what EPA contract workers did to the environment in Colorado recently, we’d not only be facing huge fines that would take a lifetime to repay, we’d also very likely be in court fighting for our freedom. But of course, our government […]