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[Sportello]

The EPA now says that the toxic level has been cleaned in the river all by nature .
Of course it has , most of the toxins that were in Colo. are now in other states and so to travel to Mexico & the Gulf .

Pretty sure it heads to the Pacific eventually, unless you meant the Gulf of California. The toxins were always seeping, just much more slowly. Which is better? Poison over decades or flush it at once? I'm not a scientist, so I don't know, but I'd like to hear an informed opinion.

 

[Babagounj]

Another mess caused by the EPA .

Greensboro: Another Ecological Disaster Brought to You by the EPA


In Greensboro [Georgia], EPA-funded contractors grading a toxic 19th-century cotton mill site struck a water main, sending the deadly sediment into a nearby creek. Though that accident took place five months ago, the hazard continues as heavy storms — one hit the area Tuesday — wash more soil into the creek.

The sediment flows carry dangerous mercury, lead, arsenic and chromium downstream to Lake Oconee and then to the Oconee River — home to many federally and state protected species.

Lead in the soil at the project site is 20,000 times higher than federal levels established for drinking water, said microbiologist Dave Lewis, who was a top-level scientist during 31 years at the Environmental Protection Agency.

He became a whistleblower critical of EPA practices and now works for Focus for Health, a nonprofit that researches disease triggers.

“Clearly, the site is a major hazardous chemical waste dump, which contains many of the most dangerous chemical pollutants regulated by the EPA,” Lewis wrote in a 2014 affidavit for a court case filed by local residents that failed to prevent the EPA project: creating a low-income housing development.


The mill site contains 34 hazardous chemicals, 30 of which are on the EPA’s list of priority pollutants because of “high toxicity, persistence, lack of degradability, and harmful effects on living organisms,” Lewis wrote. …

The Environmental Protection Agency has denied — but now admits — that it funded the cleanup and development project the triggered the catastrophe.

 

[Babagounj]

Did you hear that the water tankers that the EPA brought to the Indian Tribe to replace their polluted wells were actually oil tankers that they never cleaned out .Thus making the trucked in water undrinkable .

 

[Babagounj]

At last a little transparency from the federal government. The EPA has released footage of it releasing 3 million gallons of toxic sludge into the beautiful Animas River, which feeds the San Juan River, which in turn feeds the Colorado River, the water supply for millions of Americans:

 

[Babagounj]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/e...nking-lead-contaminated-water/article/2583153

Emails: Despite knowing of lead in water, EPA planned to let Flint keep drinking it into 2016
Jennifer Crooks, the Michigan program manager for the EPA's Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, sent out an agenda on June 8, 2015, for a planned call with Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials.
"Since Flint has lead service lines, we understand some citizen-requested lead sampling is exceeding the Action Level, and the source of drinking water will be changing again in 2016, so to start a Corrosion Control Study now doesn't make sense," Crooks wrote.

 

[Babagounj]

Judge Forces EPA To Count How Many Coal Miners It Forced Out Of Work

A federal judge ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must study how many coal industry workers have been laid off due to federal environmental regulations.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey gave EPA two weeks to come up with a way to measure job losses from air pollution regulations, including a special analysis of how these regulations impact the coal industry.

“In this case, the plaintiffs have alleged that the actions of the EPA have had a coercive effect on the power generating industry, essentially forcing them to discontinue the use of coal,” Bailey ruled.

“This Court finds these allegations sufficient to show that the injuries claimed by the plaintiffs are fairly traceable to the earlier actions of the EPA,” he wrote in his 64-page opinion.

 

[Babagounj]

Wildlife Refuge Polluted For Nearly 50 YEARS As EPA ‘Studies’

Pollution dangers at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum PA. have been documented since at least 1980, but little has been done by the EPA or anybody else to eliminate the problems. There are contaminant-fueled fires, frequently expressed public health concerns and congressional mandates, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

Locals “read laundry lists of inordinate cancer levels among people living” near Clearview during a congressional field hearing, the Delaware County Daily Times reported in May 2000.
Roy Seneca, an EPA regional spokesman, told TheDCNF that “unacceptable risks to human health and the environment were not identified in … studies until the late 1990s.”

But decades-old EPA studies have shown that pollution leaking from both landfills harmed the refuge’s ecosystem. A Pennsylvania agency even issued an advisory against drinking the creek’s water and eating the fish and banned commercial turtle harvesting in 1985.

 

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EPA-funded lab faked research results on respiratory illnesses, whistleblower lawsuit claims