The daunting mess that mining companies have left the Gov. to clean up

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2. Mines up there have been leaking for years and still are

If the EPA hadn't done anything that water would have breached the collapsed rock eventually. Mining in the area had turned the river orange many times in the past but people have just forgotten it use to happen. See bottom link.

Who knows how many things like this the EPA has prevented over the years. If the EPA ever shut down it would be a catastrophe for the entire world.


http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_28624471/animas-river-spill-gold-king-mine-one-many-area-releasing-heavy


https://www.hcn.org/articles/when-our-river-turned-orange-animas-river-spill