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Troubled Water What's Wrong with What We Drink

Seth M. Siegel

New York Times If you thought America’s drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps.

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It was mentioned as a book written by a former EPA employee, William Sandor, who critiqued the EPA's corruption and focus on class B issues instead of environmental protection, providing an insider's perspective.

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The President, any President, Republican or Democrat and his immediate staff have an agenda of about half a dozen issues with which they're most concerned.

— Episode: CLASSIC: The EPA

Episode: CLASSIC: The EPA

It was mentioned as a book written by a former EPA employee, William Sandor, who critiqued the EPA's corruption and focus on class B issues instead of environmental protection, providing an insider's perspective.

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The President, any President, Republican or Democrat and his immediate staff have an agenda of about half a dozen issues with which they're most concerned.

These are usually national security, foreign affairs, the economy of the budget and maybe one or two others. Call them class A priorities.

But for all others, housing, education, transportation, the environment are class B.

But can you picture the President bringing in the Secretary of Transportation to his office and yelling because of poor bus service in Shabuigan?

Or calling the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency into the Oval Office to chew him out for pollution in the Cuyahoga River? I can't. That is the difference.

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