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(3,910 posts) Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:01 PM Sep 2016

The EPA Is Allowing Fossil Fuel Companies To Poison Our Drinking Water

California is still reeling from a massive, years-long drought, but that hasn’t stopped the EPA from allowing fossil fuel companies to poison the few remaining aquifers in the state. The Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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The EPA Is Allowing Fossil Fuel Companies To Poison Our Drinking Water (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2016 OP

Blame Congress, not EPA freedom fighter jh Sep 2016 #1

freedom fighter jh

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1. Blame Congress, not EPA

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Sat Sep 3, 2016, 07:14 AM

Sep 2016

As Farron says, federal law allows this. EPA can't enforce against something that is allowed.

Congress has to take that exemption out of the law. Or states could pass their own laws to protect aquifers. Then EPA can enforce even, in most cases, if it's only state law.

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