Days ago, the Associated Press reported that an Environmental Protection Agency truck crashed and spilled sludge into a creek near Silverton in southwestern Colorado. That was nothing like the disaster the EPA wrought on Aug. 5, 2015, when its contractors released 3 million gallons of metals-laden water into Cement Creek, the Animas River, and the San Juan River and created an 80-mile plume of orange water.

Last year, I urged then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on his visit to Colorado to adopt “a new approach” as a national model “to the benefit of millions of Americans.” Sadly, he failed. It is time for officials in Washington to exercise adult supervision, clean up the EPA’s mess, and be a good neighbor.