Three million gallons of acidic mine drainage flooded into the Animas River basin 10 years ago, turning the southern Colorado river a mustard yellow and making international headlines. Caused by ...

Colorado Sen. Micheal Bennet’s efforts to compensate business owners who were financially harmed by the 2015 Gold King Mine spill have been impeded by yet another roadblock – the passage of stopgap ...

AZTEC, N.M. – It’s been a little over 9 years since three million gallons of Gold King Mine wastewater filled the Animas River. “I think everybody remembers the mustard yellow Animas River,” said John ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it made national news. The metallic color came ...

DENVER — Economic damage from a Colorado mine waste spill caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might be far less than originally feared after attorneys drastically reduced some of the ...

SILVERTON, Colo. -- It will take many years and many millions of dollars simply to manage and not even remove the toxic wastewater from an abandoned mine that unleashed a 100-mile-long torrent of ...