Environmental pollution - The Durango Herald

Local officials to tour Superfund sites around Colorado

Visits aim to better understand federal cleanup designation

DATE: Nov 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

La Plata County seeks additional payments to cover spill costs

EPA has already reimbursed almost $200,000

DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bennet, New Mexico lawmakers introduce bill to reform 1872 mining law

Gold King Mine spill prompts action

DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA working through Gold King Mine spill reimbursements

La Plata County seeking two payments from agency for spill

DATE: Nov 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado lawmakers pursue mine cleanup bill

Bennet, Gardner and Tipton seek to pass good Samaritan legislation

DATE: Nov 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Goodbye, TP: My experiment in generating minimum trash

In the spring of 2010, on an episode of the radio show “The Story,” I heard the tale of a British couple who lived trash-free. I walked home from my laboratory at the University of Michigan ...

DATE: Oct 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Coming Storm’ tour highlights frustrations with EPA

Pollution rules, mine spill stoke anger

DATE: Oct 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Use Lake Nighthorse to fix sewage issue

I would offer the following as a solution to the future use of Nighthorse Reservoir and Durangoâ€™s dilemma for future sewage treatment. Since it is apparent that there will be no...

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Guv’s office explains attorney general spat

Coffman says her post a key check and balance

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Gold King water treatment to begin

Leakage from complex mine network remains problem for Animas River

DATE: Oct 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA report: $14 million spent on spill so far

The Environmental Protection Agency has so far spent more than $14 million in its response to the Aug. 5 Gold King Mine blowout, according to an internal document. And an Oct. 6 w...

DATE: Oct 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA: Tests say water sent to Navajos met standards

DENVER – New tests on water sent to Navajo Nation farmers after millions of gallons of waste spilled from a Colorado mine indicate that the emergency supply met federal and tribal standards ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News