River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

Jonathan Thompson
Role: Author
Written by an award-winning journalist and editor of High Country News

Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends.