Totally loyal to Trump. Does not give a damn about what she is nominated to oversee nor Americans in general. Totally anti-science and anti-regulations. What’s not to love?

kiss the ring! Screw everyone and ANYTHING else!

I despise this admin with a fury that cannot be put into words

required by this administration....corrupt and completely lacking any principles.

FFS these people are beyond belief. who can be that indifferent to the quality and sanctity of human life?

haven't found anything yet.

I'm posting this link. I'm sure everyone knows about the epa, but it's under attack right now.
https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/report-environmental-violations

Let the peasantry drink dangerous water. They should be glad the 0.01% gives them access to water, period, and shut up about the rest.

Slime bag.

Every human being on the planet is "radioactive."

If they weren't, they would die, since potassium is a radioactive element that is essential to living things.

Nowhere in this article is there any reference to any unit of radioactivity, such as a Sievert or a Bequerel or a Gray

Ignorance about radiation, what it is, what it does, and how it is measured does not improve our rhetoric, and can in fact, make us look ridiculous, which by the way, the tenor of this entire thread is.

The biggest threat to human health in connection with the environment is air pollution, which is a chemical hazard, not a radiological one.

Much of the groundwater around the world is radioactive because uranium and its daughters are ubiquitous elements, found in practically all the granite on earth. The question is not if water is radioactive - it almost always is - but how radioactive it is.

I note that in the 1960's pretty much all of the water on this planet was far more radioactive than it is today because of tritium formed from open air nuclear testing.

I once calculated that on the planet at that time, the likely annual death toll from tritium was on the order of 1600 people a year, an amount of loss that is easily dwarfed by deaths from whiffing benzene at a gasoline station while pumping gas during the same period. Today, the death toll from tritium - some of which is formed or delivered by solar radiation - is on the order of 20 people per year. These calculations are made explicit here: Profile of Radioactive Substance Associated With Nuclear Power: Tritium.

A whimsical unit of radioactivity is the "banana equivalent", which refers to the radioactivity of a banana, due to its high potassium load.

Brazil nuts, by contract are more radiologically "risky" than bananas, since they tend to concentrate radium. However, I personally would oppose vilifying an official - even a Trump official - because he or she has allowed the importation of Brazil nuts. They typically have a radiation level of about 100 bequerel/kg or more radioactivity.

Unless we understand radiation and learn how to properly respect it, our planet is in deep shit, since nuclear power is the only truly sustainable and safe form of energy, whether or not the general public - with its well known penchant for selective attention - is educated enough to know this or not.

If her agency was willing to "fudge" numbers on radioactive materials, I think it can be at least assumed that other pollutants were probably misrepresented to the public as well.

And, though I'm admittedly not well educated in nuclear or radioactive particles, it is imperative that the people placed into those positions have a clear understanding of them.

...medical cases, or in just pure science.

In many places, it is subject to both civil and criminal prosecution.

But simply saying "radioactive water" and expecting a hysterical response - which one is regrettably likely to get - is nonsense.

In fact, it's toxic, because nuclear energy saves lives, and the bastardization of the word "radioactive" is playing into general public ignorance on this score, and thus leading to unnecessary and preventable deaths from air pollution.

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power

(Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

The upper link in your original post however, does give units and points out that detectable radium is found - this is very unsurprising - in a large fraction of the nation's groundwater.

It has always been there, although we can say that certain practices, most notably "fracking" do mobilize radium. Much of the flowback water from gas operations is more radioactive than the radioactivity associated with the seas outside Fukushima, although no one seems to care about that.