EPA To Issue Stricter Drinking Water Standards
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The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening drinking water standards to impose stricter limits on four contaminants that can cause cancer. In a speech Monday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency is developing stricter regulations for four compounds (tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, acrylamide and epichlorohydrin). All four chemical compounds can cause cancer. Source: Source
USA TODAY investigation: Government fails to warn against lead factory dangers
With homes and parks where lead smelting plants once stood, EPA and state officials did little to assess lead-contaminated soil or alert those at risk, USA TODAY's 14-month investigation found. Ref. USAToday
Soil tests find hazardous lead levels in yards across the USA
Hundreds of soil tests taken by USA TODAY near former lead factories found that the majority of yards in several neighborhoods had high lead levels - in some cases, five to 10 times higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency considers hazardous to kids. Ref. USAToday
Senators call for EPA inquiry into lead factory sites
Six U.S. Senators are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to immediately examine the health threats posed by forgotten lead-smelting factory sites exposed in a recent USA TODAY investigation. Ref. USAToday
Dealing a potential blow to the Obama administration and environmentalists, the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider limiting the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate greenhouse gases. Ref. USAToday
In a loss for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency unreasonably interpreted the Clean Air Act when it decided to set limits on the emissions of toxic pollutants from power plants without first considering the costs to industry. Ref. CNN
This is from a moral liberal website, so of course everything it has to say is negative about Trump, but the facts are all correct. Trump has issued several mandates that are getting out of control. This article is about his mandate against grant or contract work in the EPA. It is unclear right now if this is all grants (Current and future) or just future grants. We are talking over $6.5 billion dollars. That's $6,500,000,000 worth of contracts and grants that are currently unclear. The Trump administration is so understaffed that all calls for clarification have gone unanswered. How about we get people into their positions before we start issuing mandates that so drastic? Trump is behaving very scarily.
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