Utah seeking $1.9 billion from EPA over mine spill

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for $1.9 billion in damages after the agency inadvertently triggered a multistate spill from an old gold mine in Colorado, the Utah Attorney General's Office confirmed Tuesday.The state filed the claim in February but never publicly announced it, said Dan Burton, a spokesman for the attorney general's office. Word of the claim first surfaced Friday when the EPA made a passing reference to it in a news release.It is by