{"id":71574,"date":"2017-02-14T22:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/feds-seek-to-dismiss-new-mexicos-claims-over-gold-king-mine-spill\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T05:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T05:02:49","slug":"feds-seek-to-dismiss-new-mexicos-claims-over-gold-king-mine-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/feds-seek-to-dismiss-new-mexicos-claims-over-gold-king-mine-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds seek to dismiss New Mexico\u2019s claims over Gold King Mine spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=20257175-6033-47a2-8ae6-4c0cd19e02f7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1402\" alt=\"Richard Charley, right, and Melvin Jones deliver water to a ranch along the San Juan River on the Navajo Reservation on Aug. 12, 2015, in Shiprock, New Mexico. Toxic wastewater from the Gold King Mine in Silverton contaminated the San Juan River in Northern New Mexico from the runoff of the Animas River due to an accidental breach by a mining a safety team working for the Environmental Protection Agency.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Richard Charley, right, and Melvin Jones deliver water to a ranch along the San Juan River on the Navajo Reservation on Aug. 12, 2015, in Shiprock, New Mexico. Toxic wastewater from the Gold King Mine in Silverton contaminated the San Juan River in Northern New Mexico from the runoff of the Animas River due to an accidental breach by a mining a safety team working for the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Justice Department filed its motion Monday, following up on arguments first made by the Obama administration that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is protected by sovereign immunity.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government contends the agency doesn\u2019t fit the definition of a liable party.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico was first to sue over the mine spill, alleging that the agency had not taken full responsibility for triggering the spill of 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater from the mine near Silverton. The plume coursed through the Animas and San Juan rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico officials say the government\u2019s motion was expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Charley, right, and Melvin Jones deliver water to a ranch along the San Juan River on the Navajo Reservation on Aug. 12, 2015, in Shiprock, New Mexico. Toxic wastewater from the Gold King Mine in Silverton contaminated the San Juan River in Northern New Mexico from the runoff of the Animas River due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,739,2461,1655,138,1774,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-gold-king-mine-spill","tag-navajo-nation","tag-new-mexico","tag-shiprock","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71574"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}