Local News
Gold King Mine water-treatment plant operational
Cost: $1.5M for facility to be built and $16,000 per week to operate
Environment
Regional News
Rocky Flats stirs emotions 10 years after cleanup
Critics say land not safe for public use
Local News
Gold King water treatment to begin
Leakage from complex mine network remains problem for Animas River
Local News
EPA report: $14 million spent on spill so far
And an Oct. 6 weekly Situation Report “for internal use only” says the agency costs are now adding up to more than $100,000 per day. As of Oct. 5, the…
Regional News
EPA: Tests say water sent to Navajos met standards
In this Aug. 18, 2015, photo, Joe Ben Jr., Shiprock Chapter House Farm Board representative, tests the water from tanks at the Chief Hill location in Shiprock, N.M. The U.S.…
Local News
Aerial tour a glimpse of water’s importance
over San Juan Mountains shows interplay of mines and river
Business
Study suggests ‘green’ vacations could hurt wildlife
This undated image provided by the New Mexico Tourism Department shows the Gila National Forest. Ecotourism projects that began in 2010 feature wilderness areas in the Gila region around Silver…
Southwest Life
Founder of Durango-based Great Old Broads for Wilderness dies
1989, Tixier started conservation group
Local News
Century-old Rico mines require ongoing monitoring
Officials unsure what’s happening in tunnels
Nation & World
Appeals court puts hold on regulation protecting waterways
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati put the regulations on hold nationwide until the court decides whether it has jurisdiction…
Local News
Junk cars emerge from river’s banks
‘Detroit riprap’ once used to prevent erosion along the Animas
Local News
EPA rules extend to pesticides, petroleum
Regulations focus on protecting farmworkers, cutting emissions emissions
Local News
Open-space swap examined in Three Springs
3-acre parcel could be better for affordable housing instead
Local News
Water-treatment system announced for Gold King
building temporary facility to treat polluted water
Local News
Four Corners methane plume discussed at EPA hearing
for tough methane standards irks of oil and gas companies
Regional News
Firefighting shift focuses on sage grouse in West
Male sage grouse fight for the attention of a female southwest of Rawlins, Wyo. As one of the West’s worst wildfire seasons in memory grinds on, federal officials are defending…
Regional News
New Mexico official: EPA kept water data secret
Secretary of environment says the agency’s actions hobbled state’s response
Local News
Homeless man gets six months for trashing Forest Service land
Collected 8,500 pounds of debris
Local News
State agrees to improve flows on Lower Dolores
Conservation Board says higher flows will improve river and fish health
Local News
County wants real-time water-monitoring system
Commissioners mull remedial options in aftermath of mine spill
Local News
‘I can take the long view’
Lachelt says regulation is best way to represent gas, natural lands
Regional News
After spill, work suspended at 10 mine sites
Colorado Attorney General, Cynthia H. Coffman, and Utah Attorney General, Sean Reyes, talk in front of the Gold King Mine during a site tour in August of the mine north…
Local News
At Bullion Mine, project keeps waste under control
Bullion King Mine being successfully treated
Local News
S. Utes: Spill costs at $200K
Chairman says EPA ‘never lifted a finger’ to alert the tribe