EPA chief delays methane rule at behest of oil and gas firms

Pruitt did not address the report of the possible office closure or how drastic budget cuts would impact the EPA’s operations.
Pruitt visited “to discuss cleanup and hear directly from East Chicago residents affected by contamination in their community”, the agency said in a press release.
“African Americans serve as the canaries in the mine, yet today we are seeing that those mines exist in our communities where toxic poisons are ignored, only because they have yet to reach the rest of America”, NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks said in a statement issued Tuesday.
They chanted and held signs reading, “East Chicago Demands Clean Water”.
The pair joined other state and federal officials, including Senators Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
and Todd Young (R-Ind)., meeting with East Chicago officials and community leaders.
Last week EPA administrator Scott Pruitt announced he would rewrite Obama-era rules limiting water pollution from power plants.
Officials began evacuating the 45-year-old complex, built on a site previously occupied by a lead-products factory, after soil tests found some yards with lead levels over 70 times the USA safety standard.
Officials began evacuating the 45-year-old complex, built on a site previously occupied by a lead-products factory, after soil tests found some yards with lead levels over 70 times the USA safety standard.
The leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to tour an IN public-housing complex where roughly 1,000 people were ordered evacuated because of lead contamination.

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