Heinrich On EPA's Response To Gold King Mine Spill

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich spoke at a U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs oversight hearing on the Gold King Mine spill, which caused a large plume of bright orange toxic waste to spill into the Animas and San Juan Rivers and pollute the Four Corners region last month. The committee examined the impacts the spill had on Indian Country, including the Navajo Nation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) response to the accident. During the hearing, Senator Heinrich asked about the EPA's response following the accident and how that effort was communicated to throughout Colorado, New Mexico, and Navajo Nation--which fall in three separate EPA regions--and the lessons the agency learned in order to prevent future accidents like the Gold King Mine Spill from happening. September 16, 2015.