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Position: County & environment reporter
Email: jromeo@durangoherald.com
Phone Number: (970) 375-4515
More than 10 strands of marijuana grown by Acme Healing Center have been ordered off shelves because of pesticide residues, but company representatives said Wednesday that’s because of “impossible”...
DATE: April 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
A cease-and-desist order has been issued to two oil and gas companies for illegally operating 40 wells in La Plata County, which state officials say “constitute an emergency situation posing a...
DATE: April 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
An engineer hired by the owner of Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park said he will release a study next week on the park’s wastewater lagoon, which has leached untreated sewage into its namesake creek...
DATE: April 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
A letter sent by U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of threatening the Gold King Mine owner and seizing his land prompted agency officials to explain themselves. On...
DATE: March 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
For the avid music lover, a hurried rush to the men’s bathroom at Open Shutter Gallery quickly turns into a moment of curious distraction: How did a picture of Townes Van Zandt playing in Silverton...
DATE: March 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
A recent report of a leaking, open sewage lagoon at Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park has prompted representatives at Animas Mobile Home Community to offer to relocate three Lightner residents free...
DATE: March 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
The owner of the Gold King Mine said Monday the Environmental Protection Agency again forced him to sign an access agreement through 2016 for several private mining claims, prolonging a land...
DATE: March 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
After more than a decade in violation of the Clean Water Act, state officials have ordered Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park to shut down its sewage lagoon, which is seeping a mixture of feces, urine...
DATE: March 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
It seems everything is arriving early this year: warmer temperatures, spring runoff and, yes, allergy season. “We’ve been seeing the cedar pollen showing up earlier – since the last week of...
DATE: March 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
A voicemail from a Bureau of Land Management project manager announcing the deferral of a 2,122-acre oil and gas lease sale on sacred land near Chaco Canyon prompted environmental groups on Tuesday...
DATE: March 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
In a short but somber interview Tuesday on “The Dr. Phil Show,” the mother of Dylan Redwine – the 13-year-old who vanished from his father’s home in 2012 and whose remains were found seven months...
DATE: March 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
Water samples taken from the Animas River during the season’s first spring runoff since August’s Gold King Mine spill raise a “red flag” for potential harm to aquatic life in the waterway. On Feb....
DATE: March 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
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