EPA claims Colorado rivers are now cleared of contamination

Less than three weeks after the EPA spilled more than three million gallons of toxic sludge into the Animas River in Colorado during its “cleanup” of an abandoned gold mine, the agency announced that contamination levels were “trending toward pre-event conditions” and lifted restrictions on the use of water from the affected areas downstream.

Can the agency be trusted at this point, particularly after last week’s revelations regarding the agency’s foreknowledge of a possible spill and its failure to heed the warnings or create a contingency plan?

The EPA’s shoddy handling of the entire affair has drawn sharp criticism, including accusations of gross neglect and attempts to cover up the magnitude of the environmental damage. The planning of the operation and the subsequent response to the spill on the part of the agency borders on the criminal, yet the Obama administration has remained strangely silent in the wake of the disaster .... http://www.naturalnews.com