According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, mining produces more toxic waste than any other industry, making up about 25% of the entire U.S. toxics inventory. NRDC's Joel Reynolds discusses mine safety in the Los Angeles Times.
On Aug. 5, at the abandoned Gold King mine in southwest Colorado, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup team inadvertently unleashed into a tributary of the Animas River a 3-million-gallon soup of toxic mining wastewater.
LATIMES.COM|BY LOS ANGELES TIMES
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