Boy, the national media sure lost interest in the Environmental Protection Agency’s catastrophic spill of toxic wastewater from the Gold King Mine in Colorado on Aug. 5. Yes, portions of the affected rivers are reopened, but the spill is still impacting the Navajo Nation:

Outside the tribal chapter here near the San Juan River, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye pointed to a stack of hay delivered by the Environmental Protection Agency and expressed disappointment.
“This was supposed to be here seven days ago,” he said Friday, about 30 miles south of the Colorado border. “This should have been here last week.”
If there was ever doubt this tribe of roughly 300,000 people is mistrustful of the federal government, such uncertainty is gone. The EPA-caused 3 million-gallon mine wastewater spill in southwest Colorado on Aug. 5 sent resentment cascading into American Indian land along with a plume of heavy-metal contaminants.
Members of the tribe, which spans 27,600 square miles across three states, anxiously waited and watched as yellow-orange sludge streamed into their sacred San Juan River four days after the spill. Navajo Nation leadership has even coined a Navajo phrase for their response — and frustration — to the disaster, calling it Tó Łitso — Operation Yellow Water.

Had the Bush administration’s EPA made such a terrible series of mistakes, blunders and callous disregard, it would have been giant headline news for weeks. In the era of the Obama administration, where everyone “knows” we have an environmentally-sensitive president who cares for all oppressed minority groups, this sort of news doesn’t fit the narrative. So it goes away quickly.