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Jul 28 2017

Superfund Update: July 2017

By sjca Gold King Mine, Rivers No Comments

What's going on? Earlier in July, the Superfund team completed surface water sampling from the Upper Animas River, Cement Creek, and Mineral Creek as part of their ongoing study of our river’s headwaters. The samples will be analyzed for metal…

Jul 24 2017

What happens if San Juan Generating Station Closes?

By sjca Coal No Comments

The San Juan Generating Station and San Juan Mine coal complex (SJGS/SJM) is New Mexico’s single largest polluter. While the facilities provide electricity to 500,000 customers, and employ several hundred of our community members, they do so at a great…

Jul 14 2017

EPA Cuts Corners to Ignore the Law

By Mark Pearson Durango Herald Column, Lands Protection, Oil & Gas, Rivers No Comments

Waiving rules to prevent methane pollution. Stripping wetlands of protection under the Clean Water Act. Throwing out restrictions against strip-mining mountaintops and dumping the spoils into streams. The Trump administration has an ambitious agenda to eliminate protections for air, water…

Jul 13 2017

SJCA Appeals Over Deeply Flawed Approval of Silverton Heli Ski Expansion

By Erika Brown Lands Protection 3 Comments

We just couldn't let it slide. There were too many egregious, and frankly illegal, errors in the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) process that resulted in approval of Siverton Guide's proposed heli-ski permit expansion. Despite hundreds of public comments against the…

Superfund Update: July 2017

What happens if San Juan Generating Station Closes?

EPA Cuts Corners to Ignore the Law

SJCA Appeals Over Deeply Flawed Approval of Silverton Heli Ski Expansion

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