Mealey's (April 8, 2020, 2:08 PM EDT) -- DENVER— A federal judge in Colorado on April 7 denied an unopposed motion by the government to enter a consent decree that would require it to pay $425,000 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the successors to a mining company to pay $5.7 million to the agency to resolve liability for past and future cleanup costs at the Commodore Waste Rock Pile (CWRP) Superfund site, holding that the government failed to demonstrate that the proposed settlement is in the public interest and that its terms are fair and reasonable (United States v. Pioneer Natural Resources Co., et al., No. 17-cv-0168-WJM, D. Colo., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60890)....