Report: EPA Delayed Response to Flint Water Crisis by 7 Months Despite Proof of Disaster
October 21, 2016 | RT.com | RT.com | 153 views
The US Environmental Protection Agency should have intervened to protect the people of Flint, Michigan from lead-contaminated water at least seven months sooner, an EPA “alert report” has found. It also urged updates to the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The EPA’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) said the agency had “sufficient” information and the authority to issue an emergency order already in June 2015, but it did not do so until January 21, 2016.
Among factors that affected its delayed response to the Flint environmental crisis was the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and its Section 1431, which set the “jurisdictional bar” for the EPA to act while local authorities were sitting idle.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/report-epa-delayed-response-to-flint-water-crisis-by-7-months-despite-proof-of-disaster_102016
