EPA won’t be paying for mine spill

Published January 14, 2017 1:49am ET



The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it won’t be paying states $1.2 billion in damages they incurred as a result of a 3 million gallon toxic wastewater spill that EPA caused in Colorado going on two years ago.

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