{"id":10863,"date":"2015-08-14T14:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T18:59:43","slug":"epa-wont-face-fines-for-polluting-rivers-with-orange-muck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/epa-wont-face-fines-for-polluting-rivers-with-orange-muck\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA won&#8217;t face fines for polluting rivers with orange muck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/11\/epa-wont-face-fines-polluting-rivers-orange-muck\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/88465f551a745f237e0f6a706700a63d_c0-81-1928-1204_s561x3271.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike BP, which was fined $5.5 billion for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the EPA will pay nothing in fines for unleashing the Animas River spill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSovereign immunity. The government doesn\u2019t fine itself,\u201d said Thomas L. Sansonetti, former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department\u2019s division of environment and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and other lawmakers have called on the EPA to hold itself to the same standards as it would a private company in the aftermath of Wednesday\u2019s accident, in which an EPA-led crew uncorked a 3 million-gallon spill of orange wastewater from the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cThe EPA does not fine itself the way that you would fine an outside company like BP,\u201d said Mr. Sansonetti, who served from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>What the EPA can be expected to cover is the cost of the cleanup and compensation for the damage caused, funding that would have to be appropriated by Congress, meaning that the taxpayers will foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s going to have to be appropriated because that sort of thing is not included in the EPA\u2019s budget,\u201d said Mr. Sansonetti, now a Denver attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/11\/epa-wont-face-fines-polluting-rivers-orange-muck\/\">EPA won&#8217;t face fines for polluting rivers with orange muck &#8211; Washington Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike BP, which was fined $5.5 billion for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the EPA will pay nothing in fines for unleashing the Animas River spill. \u201cSovereign immunity. The government doesn\u2019t fine itself,\u201d said Thomas L. Sansonetti, former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department\u2019s division of environment and natural resources. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and other lawmakers have called on the EPA to hold itself to the same standards as it would a private company in the aftermath of Wednesday\u2019s accident, in which an EPA-led crew uncorked a 3 million-gallon spill of orange wastewater from the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado. However, \u201cThe EPA does not fine itself the way that you would fine an outside company like BP,\u201d said Mr. Sansonetti, who served from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush. What the EPA can be expected to cover is the cost of the cleanup and compensation for the damage caused, funding that would have to be appropriated by Congress, meaning that the taxpayers will foot the bill. \u201cThat\u2019s going to have to be appropriated because that sort of thing is not included in the EPA\u2019s budget,\u201d said Mr. Sansonetti, now a Denver attorney. 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