Yep - Trump plan to tackle lead in drinking water criticized as 'empty exercise'
Sources within EPA tell Guardian that proposals are threadbare and muddled – ‘they’re are just making it up as they go along’
Oliver Milman in New York @olliemilman
Thu 26 Apr 2018 06.00 EDT
Four years ago officials chose to switch Flint’s water to the Flint river, without lead corrosion controls, prompting the public health crisis. Photograph: Terray Sylvester/AP
AND .. see the graph inside the next re lost lives
The White House’s Failure in Puerto Rico Was Even Worse Than We Knew
"Another alternative to "Trump's military parade""
By Eric Levitz @EricLevitz
February 6, 2018 6:06 pm
A resident of San Isidro pleads with others to make room as U.S. soldiers prepare to pass out food and water, provided by FEMA, to residents in a neighborhood without grid electricity or running water.
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The federal government had time to deploy satellite phones to the island, to avoid the communications blackout that isolated remote areas from the territory’s government. It could have delivered reserves of food, fuel, and water in advance of the storm, allowing local officials to spread those vital resources throughout the territory before Maria lay waste to much of its trucking infrastructure. Instead, the president did almost nothing in the lead-up to the storm — and went on a four-day golf vacation in its immediate aftermath.
This inaction almost certainly cost some of the island’s (American) citizens their lives.
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