The accident, caused by the Environmental Protection Agency during a clean-up operation Wednesday, triggered a toxic plume turning the beloved, crystal clear Animas the color of mustard. “Needless to say, the health of our community and recreation-based economy depends...
This “may well be the most serious and important decision you ever have to make”. he said, and insisted that they each use “their own individual reasoned moral judgment” in deciding Holmes’s fate.
Mr Brauchler recited the names and ages of the 12 people killed by Holmes and said they were at the heart of the case. The jury ultimately rejected this claim. Official sentencing is scheduled for August 24-26.
Mustard-colored wastewater laced with heavy metals continues to drain into a river from an abandoned mine in southwestern Colorado at a rate of about 550 gallons per minute, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which caused the spill.
The Environmental Protection Agency says wastewater continues to drain from an abandoned mine in southwestern Colorado at a rate of about 550 gallons per minute.
The plume, unleashed on Wednesday August 5 by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers assessing an entrance of the Gold King Mine in Silverado, Colorado, was flowing at one to two miles per hour, according to the San Juan County Office of Emergency Management.
Officials in New Mexico are blasting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not informing them soon enough about a plume of mustard-colored muck floating downstream from a Colorado mine. Farmers have been asked not to use the water.
Workers for the Environmental Protection Agency were trying to clean the long-abandoned Gold King Mine, but allowed it to breach a berm, or small strip of raised land, and the toxic water flowed into the Animas River.
He was convicted last month of 24 counts of first-degree murder – two for each of the slain victims. Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 others on July 20, 2012.