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H2Oops
EPA exaggerated claims about clean drinking water |
Amanda Griscom |
16 Mar 2004 |
Muckraker |
| That sinking feeling. The U.S. EPA claims it is successfully protecting the nation's drinking-water supplies -- but that claim seems to have sprung a leak. Earlier this month, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General accused officials in the agency of consistently making bogus statements about improvements in the quality of America's tap water. The charges are spelled out in a tellingly titled report: &q ... |
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| Topics: health, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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