Environmentalists Press EPA For Consistent Regional Responses On Nitrates

A coalition of 23 environmental groups is seeking to meet with EPA’s water chief to discuss and evaluate how the agency can address “widespread” nitrate pollution that is contaminating drinking water, an effort aimed in part at ensuring a consistent response from the agency’s regions as they weigh multiple “emergency” petitions seeking to address the pollution. The groups, including Food & Water Watch (F&WW), Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Working Group and others, sent Bruno Pigott, acting assistant administrator for...