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JAZZ SHAW
Posted 3:31 pm on September 3, 2017
If you’ve been following all of the Hurricane Harvey news, you may have seen the hot as a pistol headline from the Associated Press yesterday. ‘AP EXCLUSIVE: Toxic waste sites flooded; EPA not on scene” Wow. That sounds pretty bad. And reading through the article you would find that more than a dozen toxic EPA superfund sites in the area affected by the hurricane were flooded and the possibility of toxic leakage was very real. But the big takeaway was that the EPA hadn’t even bothered to inspect them.
This led to a flood of even hotter takes from liberal sites, eager to dump some accusations on the doorstep of the White House. The Washington Monthly blared out, “Trump’s Hamstrung EPA Is AWOL As Toxic Chemicals Flood Houston.” Raw Story went with, “REVEALED: Highly toxic Houston ‘Superfund’ sites hit by Harvey have not been checked since the storm.” I’m pretty sure Think Progress never even finished their article because they were fainting from pure joy.
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