If you had an unlimited budget, what do we do, going forward, given what we have seen out of the Gold King Mine?
Can you understand some of the frustration, the position that you put yourself in----
We need to pass Good Samaritan legislation, as Senator Gardner said.
From the outset I've said that EPA should be held to the same standard as EPA would hold a private company for said spil...
It's also clear that the agency was slow to communicate with local governments and didn't obtain water quality results.
Let's identify exactly what went wrong to make sure this doesn't happen again.
These families deserve to have the full attention and the dedicated resources of the Administration committed to the cle...
There is no denying that EPA caused this disaster.
We need to reform the 1872 Mining Law to make sure that companies pay royalties to taxpayers.
This same amount of polluted water was already being released from the Gold King Mine about every week.
It is also clear...the agency was slow to communicate with local governments.
I fully agree with that.
Sometimes when information is produced but not explained, that can be as bad as keeping information hidden.
Senator Bennet and I were at a community meeting in Durango where the results of testing and water samples were displaye...
My hope is that as you work toward a decision that you will engage everyone in Colorado on this question.
We have asked you and the President to find resources and try to prioritize funding for a water treatment plant in the U...
We need solutions to address the acid mine drainage coming from all of these old abandoned mines.
We also need to pass Good Samaritan legislation to encourage counties, nonprofits, and companies to clean up abandoned m...
