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Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 22.

This Is a Job for Superfund!

Colorado's legacy of contamination spreads far and wide.

What Lies Beneath

The effort to reclaim a historic mining district has consumed years and millions of dollars. But will it hold water?

Enemy Mine

The debate over open-pit mining turns toxic.

The Incredible Shrinking Career

EPA scientist Brian Rimar just wanted to keep doing research, but his agency found him too toxic.

Swimming Upstream

EPA scientist Brian Rimar just wanted to keep doing research, but his agency found him too toxic.

A Dunn Deal

How're you gonna keep those biosolids down on the farm?

It's the Pits

Mining made history in Victor. But will a new gold rush devour its future?

Lode Warriors

A Denver mining company is looking for copper. All it's found so far is a rich vein of environmentalists.

Letters: Racists should make a run for the border

A Denver mining company is looking for copper. All it's found so far is a rich vein of environmentalists.

Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spill?

All systems go, but which way? Out the door?​It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-ha ... More >>