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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.

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,...

However, the toxic source of the water, the mines in the San Juan Mountains, are only now being addressed because of the work of the federal agency.

Communities along the Animas and San Juan rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah have been forced to stop using river water after 3 million gallons of wastewater spilled from an old Colorado mine.

The yellow plume of toxins stretches 100 miles.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy also plans to visit Farmington, New Mexico, on Thursday.