Washington • Unhappy with the Interior Department's explanation of the August wastewater spill that polluted rivers in four states, and Utah's Lake Powell, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop has requested an independent review of the government's actions and response to the incident.
The move followed an occasionally contentious hearing in which Bishop, a Utah Republican, pressed Interior Secretary Sally Jewell several times on her department's investigation of the spill, caused by an Environmental Protection Agency contractor.
Bishop blasted Jewell after the hearing and asked for a study by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.