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applegrove

(118,012 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 08:00 PM Mar 2016

Thanks To Flint, Republicans Love EPA Rules All Of A Sudden

Thanks To Flint, Republicans Love EPA Rules All Of A Sudden

by Arthur Delaney and Kate Sheppard at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flint-epa-republicans_us_56ec30efe4b09bf44a9d1b7a?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON — Republicans have made environmental regulations their punching bag for years. But now that there’s a water crisis unfolding in Flint, Michigan, they’ve decided that what we actually need is more rules.

“We need the Lead and Copper Rule to be updated,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told reporters Thursday after wrapping up his third and possibly final hearing on the Flint water crisis.

Chaffetz had been asked how to prevent water crises like the one in Flint, where thousands of children have been exposed to high levels of lead in the drinking water. His response pointed to a regulation promulgated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act — a rule that Chaffetz said the Environmental Protection Agency had not enforced aggressively enough or updated fast enough.

“Let this be a warning to every state and municipality that they need to check on lead and they need to check and pay attention to their water supply,” Chaffetz said. “Unfortunately, I don’t think that Flint is the only situation where there’s a real problem.”




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Thanks To Flint, Republicans Love EPA Rules All Of A Sudden (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2016 OP
I could tell from the way they reacted to Hillary Clinton's pivot to Flint that the GOP applegrove Mar 2016 #1
They are all talking about it today....... ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #2
The GOP owns all of this jpak Mar 2016 #3
Lead in your area. Stellar Mar 2016 #4

applegrove

(118,012 posts)
1. I could tell from the way they reacted to Hillary Clinton's pivot to Flint that the GOP
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 08:02 PM
Mar 2016

saw it as a very soft spot in their plank (I would say platform but walking the plank is more like it).

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
2. They are all talking about it today.......
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 08:11 PM
Mar 2016

All the Repubs I know, and that is many, are all talking like this today after not saying jack shit for months.

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