"when the government takes it upon themselves to step in and clean an area (pre-law) and boff the project and spew over 3 million gallons of bad water into a stream that effects everyone within that community makes it their fault. "

Wait, you don't understand how the General Mining Law of 1872 works. The government didn't take it upon themselves to clean up Gold King. They were forced to clean it up because the owners abandoned this old mine and knew they couldn't pay the rememdiation costs. It was old enough (like thousands of abandoned hard rock mines across the west) that no bonding was required. 

The same thing is happening with the coal companies now. Alpha just went bust and now they're trying to pawn the cleanup off on the taxpayers with junk self-bonds that aren't worth the paper they're written on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/can-coal-companies-afford-to-clean-up-coal-country/2016/04/01/c175570c-ec73-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html