EPA Touts Flint Remediation Efforts As GOP Questions SDWA Compliance

February 22, 2016
EPA's top water official in a letter to Congress is touting the agency's progress in remediating lead contamination in the Flint, MI, drinking water system while also pledging to continue work revising national rules to prevent similar crises in the future, but Republicans are claiming EPA's efforts fall short of its duties under federal drinking water law. Joel Beauvais, the EPA deputy assistant administrator for water, said in a Feb. 19 letter to the House Energy & Commerce Committee that...


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