Gold King Mine Release in San Juan County, Colorado on August 5, 2015
ELR Citation: 49 ELR 20037 No(s). 1:18-md-02824-WJ (D.N.M. Feb 28, 2019) (Johnson, J.)
A district court denied EPA's motions to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two states and a Native American tribe seeking to recover response costs from the 2015 Gold King mine spill that sent millions of gallons of acid mine drainage into the Animas and San Juan Rivers. EPA argued that it retained sover...