The United States Supreme Court may take up a disagreement between two Four Corners states over the 2015 Gold King Mine spill.
The Denver Post reports the court has asked the Department of Justice to give its views on a lawsuit filed by New Mexico against Colorado in June. This indicates the court may hear the case. The spill occurred when a company working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency breached a portal at a historic mine site, sending millions of gallons of heavy-metal-laced water into the Animas River and then the San Juan in New Mexico and Utah. New Mexico, which is also suing the EPA over the disaster, contends the contamination brought environmental and economic damage to the state’s water-users.
