Colorado Congressman Has Doubts About Superfund Mine Cleanup

DENVER (AP) — A southwestern Colorado congressman says a Superfund designation isn’t the best way to clean up leaking mines in his district but that he won’t stand in the way after local leaders endorsed it.
Republican Rep. Scott Tipton said Thursday a Superfund cleanup would be overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which caused an August mine spill that prompted the cleanup.
Tipton says it would be better to fund the effort another way. He didn’t offer sp