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I was a student at Oregon from 1998-2002, during the Harrington era, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him, as a player and a man. We are trying to be them.

Not the Animas. How could this be? Particularly given that the heavy metals will increasingly drop into the lake floor as the water slows down, impacts to the Grand Canyon and downstream water users should be minimal.

The toxic waste from the Gold King Mine in Southern Colorado, which sparked this disaster, flowed through the Animas into the San Juan last week and is making its way past the Navajo Nation. “We are optimistic that you will pursue legislation to begin rectifying what the...

Advisories were put in place after federal contractors breached a wall blocking waste from the decommissioned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colo., last week.

Anyone who follows mining, oil spill and power plant accidents knows the EPA, Obama White House and Big Green environmentalist rhetoric: There is no safe threshold for chemicals.

The plume has since dissipated, its heavy metals settling into riverbeds, during the waste’s 300-mile journey toward Lake Powell, where the flow joins the Colorado River that supplies water to the Southwest. But the state deserves credit for its aggressive approach, within...

They were attempting to open the mine up so they could treat the wastewater inside, but instead released toxic waste and turned the Animas River bright orange. But “normally, people want it to be cleaned, so if that’s the best way of moving through it, generally...

It looked Photoshopped, but it was definitely real: A river in Colorado flowed orange.

Ryan Parker, a water research specialist, takes samples Tuesday from the San Juan River in Montezuma Creek, Utah, to check fo… Begaye said “Decades. That is totally, completely unsettling”, Begaye said. “This is a huge issue”. In the San Juan River,...

“She said the period of time those concentrations remain in one area is short”.

New Mexico’s top environmental official is accusing Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper of a “reckless and irresponsible act” for swigging water straight from the contaminated Animas River.

“I am absolutely, deeply sorry that this ever happened”, she said. “Pure yellow. Like Tang”.

The flooding happened south of Denver in Manitou Springs.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Water Quality Bureau released results Tuesday that showed the plume of toxic mine waste caused little to no change in the Animas and San Juan rivers’ pH levels. The plume has since passed through parts of Colorado, New Mexico,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has put a hold on field inspections such as the one that accidentally triggered a 3 million-gallon toxic spill into the Animas River in Colorado. “Pure yellow. Like Tang”.