I am old enough to remember that incident. And it seems to me that this was not EPA's mine. As I recall, there was a deadbeat mine owner, a problem we have faced throughout the country with abandoned mines and deadbeat mine owners.
Huffman reflects on the Animas River toxic spill and accountability of mine owners.
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