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EPA Won’t pay for damages from the pollution incident they created?

On By Len WilcoxIn Ag Politics, Politics, Science and EnvironmentLeave a comment

  As you may recall, in 2015 an EPA contractor was doing excavation work at the Gold King Mine in Colorado, a superfund site, to determine the extent of cleanup needed. The work accidentally allowed some 3 million gallons of contaminated waste water to escape. Rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah were polluted, with …

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David and Goliath, Wyoming style: Lone rancher takes on the EPA

On By Len WilcoxIn Ag business, Ag Politics, Agriculture, Science and Environment, water rights, WesternersLeave a comment

Out in western Wyoming, cattle, oil and tourists are the main sources of income; and even with a town job it’s a tough place to make a life. But one welder by the name of Andy Johnson is building a cow-calf operation on a small ranch out from town. Unfortunately the EPA didn’t like the …

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