PERSIST IN FIGHTING EPA AND YOUR TOWN JUST MIGHT BE FLOODED: Slowly but surely, thanks to the determined digging of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Ethan Barton, the whole story about the August 2015 Gold King Mine disaster is coming to light. The Environmental Protection Agency Barton is steadily exposing isn’t pretty, at all.

Here’s the nut of the story:

“Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) representatives have focused intently on Silverton, Colorado, since the mid-1990s, accumulating evidence — and sometimes using scare tactics — to persuade residents to drop their opposition to a Superfund designation for the surrounding region.

“Residents surrendered to federal demands only after an EPA work-crew turned the nearby Animas River bright yellow for nearly a week by releasing a three-million-gallon flood of acidic mine waste under extremely questionable circumstances in August 2015.

“Suspended in the flood was 880,000 pounds of toxic metals, including lead and arsenic, that poured into the river that supplies drinking water for people living in three states and the Navajo Nation. The mine is just upstream from Silverton.”

Read those three paragraphs again. Government agents just happened to “mistakenly” release a flood of acidic mine waste on a town that opposes the Superfund designation that would give the feds a stranglehold on the local economy. Incredibly enough, Barton has more coming. Stay tuned.