'Shameful' acts EPA

The EPA's announcement that they will not pay the 1.2 billion in claims for losses by those individuals and Navajo farmers is indeed shameful and so very disrespectful.

I have included an article introduction and link to a Farmington Daily Times article posted on January 13, 2017.

Also, here is a brief excerpt from the article which included remarks from the Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye:

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye said the tribe will continue pursuing its lawsuit against the EPA and several other entities. He said the tribe plans to work with president-elect Donald J. Trump's administration to address claims tied to the spill.

"It doesn't stop here," Begaye said shortly after attending an inauguration ceremony in Shiprock for recently elected Northern Agency chapter officials. "This is one step, and we will continue taking the next step and if we have to, we'll take it all the way to the Supreme Court."

                                                                        (Farmington Daily Times, January 15, 2017)

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EPA says it won't pay $1.2B in mine spill claims

Magdalena Wegrzyn , Leigh Black Irvin , Joshua Kellogg and Noel Lyn Smith , Farmington Daily TimesPublished 2:15 p.m. MT Jan. 13, 2017 | Updated 7:39 p.m. MT Jan. 13, 2017

Federal, tribal, state and local officials joined together to decry the announcement, saying the EPA is shirking its responsibilities to New Mexicans and members of the Navajo Nation

Shameful acts EPA