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Thanks To Flint, Republicans Love EPA Rules All Of A Suddenby Arthur Delaney and Kate Sheppard at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flint-epa-republicans_us_56ec30efe4b09bf44a9d1b7a?utm_hp_ref=politics
"SNIP..............
WASHINGTON Republicans have made environmental regulations their punching bag for years. But now that theres a water crisis unfolding in Flint, Michigan, theyve 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 dont think that Flint is the only situation where theres a real problem.
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Thanks To Flint, Republicans Love EPA Rules All Of A Sudden (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2016
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I could tell from the way they reacted to Hillary Clinton's pivot to Flint that the GOP
applegrove
Mar 2016
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applegrove
(118,012 posts)1. I could tell from the way they reacted to Hillary Clinton's pivot to Flint that the GOP
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.......
All the Repubs I know, and that is many, are all talking like this today after not saying jack shit for months.
jpak
(41,741 posts)3. The GOP owns all of this
yup
Stellar
(5,644 posts)4. Lead in your area.