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The southern United States has just experienced two of the most severe storms of the century: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The economic damage wrought by these disasters may approach $150 billion.

Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell testified before Congress on a toxic spill that federal and state agencies unleashed into western state rivers last August. Supervised by officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS), an Environmental Restoration (ER) company crew excavated tons of rock and debris that had blocked the portal (entrance or adit) to the Gold King Mine above Silverton, Colorado.

[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this four-part piece. Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.]  As previous posts have tried to show. we already have too many “answers”…

[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this piece. Read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.]  In Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath – with millions freezing and hungry in dark devastation, including nursing home…

[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this piece.] In the wake of “Superstorm” Sandy, the political spin and distractions reached hurricane proportions. “It’s global warming, stupid,” declared Bloomberg BusinessWeek after monster winds and waves…