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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Our Land: Gold King Mine Spill, Science Contest Winner & Online Indian Market
Description: In the August installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus revisits the Gold King Mine spill and the destructive impact of the toxic orange plume that went flowing down the Animas and San Juan rivers five years ago. The waste that was released when crews tried to reopen the abandoned mine killed fish and coated river banks with heavy metals. Paskus reports with help from a grant by The Water Desk, an independent journalism initiative based at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism.
Laura Paskus also interviews Lillian Petersen, an extraordinary young woman...