Colorado Town Finally Succumbs To EPA Control After Resisting For Decades

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Daily Caller:

Decades-old local resistance to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to have succumbed after government pressure following the August, 2015, Gold King Mine disaster.

 

The town of Silverton, Colo., repelled EPA pushes to designate Gold King Mine as a Superfund site since the 1990s, but has now surrendered in the wake of the agency-caused disaster. The EPA breached the mine last year and poisoned Animas river with 880,000 pounds of dangerous metals like lead and arsenic.

 

Residents fought to keep the town independent from federal control, but elected officials ultimately asked for the Superfund designation, saying it was better to cooperate with the EPA.

 

The EPA proposed in April to designate Gold King and 47 other nearby mines a Superfund site, giving the public 60 days to voice support or opposition. But only five people have commented as of Friday, the mid-point of the comment period, The Durango Herald reported.

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What could go wrong?

[SrWoodchuck]

Silverton is a "hippy-dippy" town full of stinkin' rich & merely obscenely rich lefties.

 

I'd call it a "Hick Snowmass" with better snow.

 

A prime example of Progressives eating their own because "Prog Dogma, Uber Alles."

 

Will this translate into lost voters? Probably not. The left loves self-serving sacrifice. What's a little "white privilege" obliterated?

 

My hope is that "someday" there will be top ranking, soulless EPA critters in federal prison jammies, after their portfolios & livelihoods are sucked away in lawsuits; individual & class actions. A prayer that "someday" comes in my lifetime.