The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's subcommittee on water and the environment heard testimony yesterday from  EPA assistant administrator Mathy Stanislaus on the toxic spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado last summer. Speciically, Chairman Hugh Thompson Rice wanted to know if anyone had been fired for the spill, or if anyone at EPA had been disciplined for it: Rice: "Let me ask you this: since there is no accountability in this administration, was anybody fired for this 3 million [gallon] spill of toxic chemicals into this river." Stanislaus: "From an accountability perspective, we have done an internal review … ." Cut off by Rice, who asked "was anybody fired?" Stanislaus: "No." Rice: "Was anybody disciplined?" Stanislaus: "Well again, so we're waiting for an independent investigation by the Department of Interior and the Office of the Inspector General to determine...(Read Full Post)