Now, what state did the Animas spill happen in? And how much oversight of mining was there, until the Environmental Protection Agency was formed around 1970?

Seems to me that Colorado mining concerns and the people of Colorado should be on the hook for at least half of the cost of the spill. Without the Gold King Mine, last operated in 1920, in the great state of Colorado, (with its Colorado School of Mines), there would not be a multistate heartache like this.

Historical context should have some bearing here.

Gerald Lance Johannsen

Carlsbad, Calif.