If the media frenzy is any indication, the Upper Gold King Mine blowout of Aug. 5 has become the West’s pollution event of the year, maybe even the decade. And in a frenzy there is bound to be ...

Bill Simon of the Animas River Stakeholders Group, which represents a wide variety of businesses and residents in the area, says it would have liked more input into EPA's activities at the Gold King ...

Two weeks after an EPA crew accidentally released three million gallons of toxic mine water into the headwaters of the Animas, the river has been declared safe for irrigation, recreation, and other ...

DURANGO, Colo. (CBS4) - CBS4 got the first look inside the source of the toxic spill on the Animas River at the Gold King Mine where millions of gallons of contaminated water were released. The ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s one of New Mexico’s biggest environmental disasters that most won’t forget any time soon. August 5, 2015, millions of gallons of bright orange mining waste water burst ...

On Aug. 5, about 3 million gallons of contaminated water burst out of an abandoned mine above Silverton and sent a plume of cloudy, orange water down Cement Creek to the Animas River, through the ...

Anyone who saw the river turn orange will remember it for the rest of their lives. One year ago over 3 million gallons of toxic waste from the inactive Gold King mine cascaded into Colorado’s Animas ...

Elected officials say they have more questions after contamination of the Animas River as a result of actions by the Environmental Protection Agency. Federal, state and local officials were first ...

Discharge from the Gold King Mine colored Colorado's Animas River a distinct golden hue on August 6. James Orndorf/inlandwest.tumblr.com The fouled waters of the Animas River are slowly clearing, but ...