Colorado EPA River Disaster Stonewalled : EPA - 'Who Cares!' Says McCarthy

It seems this EPA nightmare is getting worse and as it does the EPA is stonewalling it even more.

Why can the EPA escape responsibility but BP was fined $billions for the oil spill that Objma allowed to reach shore?

Shouldn't Gina McCarthy resign or be fired for stonewalling this disaster? It's this wanton negligence!?

Why has the congress allowed this to be swept under the rug? I wonder if this had been the fault of the mine owners would it have been lost in the sump hole of politics??

'Daily Caller'

A Department of the Interior manager refused to say who ordered agency investigators to “stay clear” of the Environmental Protection Agency’s negligence when it spilled 3 million gallons of mine waste into drinking water, according to internal emails.

The Bureau of Reclamation – a DOI agency – was tasked to investigate how the EPA blew out Colorado’s Gold King Mine, which caused the Animas River to run yellow with pollution from 880,000 pounds of dangerous metals like lead.

 

 

“The actual cause of failure is some combination of issues related to EPA internal communications, administrative authorities, and/or a break in the decision path,” Richard Olsen, the Army Corps of Engineers official who peer reviewed the resulting report, wrote in an email. But BOR was ordered to avoid such aspects in their investigation.

 

“It has been our understanding from the beginning that we were being hired to perform a technical evaluation of the causes,” BOR Technical Service Direct Thomas Luebke replied in an email to Olsen. “Further, we understood that we were asked to stay clear of the investigative efforts that health with communications/admin and how/why certain decisions were made, since these separate investigative efforts would be performed by others more suitable to that undertaking,” Luebke continued.

 

But Luebke ignored Olsen’s follow-up email asking who gave that order. “Unless such an investigation is being performed paralleled to the USBR effort, it would be my thinking that USBR should have performed it,” Olsen wrote.

The emails were obtained by the House Committee on Natural Resources

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/08/exclusive-gold-king-mine-investigators-secretly-ordered-to-stay-clear-of-epas-negligence/#ixzz42MULRhCz