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Bond: EPA’s Polluted River

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s massive spill of arsenic-laden contaminants into Colorado’s Animas River (literally, from the Spanish, River of Souls) a week ago has all the makings of a slow-speed softball pitched at this relentless critic of EPA’s hubris, bullying and unscientific (nonsense). The EPA has distinguished itself as a great general contractor when it comes to moving gigantic piles of dirt from one place to another – but that’s about it, at least as regards the mining cleanups it has attempted. Too, too easy to swing at that softball. Instead, I am going to feel EPA’s pain/ David Bond , Wallace Street Journal. More here .

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