Commentary and stories from the towns, farms, and ranches of the modern West
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 …
Continue reading EPA Won’t pay for damages from the pollution incident they created?
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 …
Continue reading David and Goliath, Wyoming style: Lone rancher takes on the EPA
