Ohio EPA refused to warn residents about toxic lead in drinking water despite knowing about it for months
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Monday, March 21, 2016
One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s core functions is the enforcement of provisions contained, which includes “the authority to implement pollution control programs such as setting wastewater standards for industry,” and to assist states in ensuring that the general public has safe drinking water.
But in recent months, the EPA seems to have forgotten this core function or, at a minimum, its bureaucrats have simply been too distracted by other priorities imposed by the Obama administration to pay much attention to their basic duties.
Recently a scandal involving contaminated water in Flint, Mich., came to a head, in which regional EPA officials were aware that the city’s water system was contaminated with lead. But now, there has been a second case of lead-tainted water that the agency was aware of but did nothing to fix, this time in Sebring, Ohio.
As reported by The Columbus Dispatch and The Daily Sheeple, Ohio state environmental officials were aware as early as last October that residents of the small town – located in Mahoning County, about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland – were consuming lead-tainted water, but failed to warn the general public.
No one took responsibility, including the one federal agency that was supposed to
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