Lawmakers on Monday questioned the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute officials in connection with the Gold King Mine spill, which dumped nearly 3 million gallons of toxins into the Animas River last year. Read more»
Special thanks
to our supporters
- Merrill Collett
- Miller McPherson
- David H Mandel
- Santa Cruz for Tucson
- Ron & Nancy Barber
- Beth Borozan
- Dylan Smith
- Newton B & Sunny Link Ashby
- Rocco's Little Chicago
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
- & many more!
We rely on readers like you. Join them & contribute to the Sentinel today!
Environmental and tribal activists welcomed the government’s announcement Wednesday that it had designated the Gold King Mine a Superfund site, advancing the cleanup of an area contaminated by a multimillion-gallon toxic spill last year.
Read more»
A Senate committee issued a subpoena Wednesday demanding that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy or an assistant administrator appear at an April 22 hearing in Phoenix on the Gold King Mine spill. Read more»
Six months after the Gold King Mine spill dumped nearly 3 million gallons of toxins into the Animas River, regulators say the immediate threat has passed, but others say the long-term threat remains. Read more»
Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye on Wednesday blasted the Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of a toxic spill in the Animas River, saying the agency’s response left his tribe feeling abandoned, uncertain and hopeless. Read more»