Saturday, December 16, 2017

First delay, can be reasonable considering a new administration.

Second delay is negligence and there needs to be lawsuits filed against the Trump EPA. There is no excuse for this.

December 15, 2017
By Suzy Khimm

Washington — The Trump administration (click here) is moving forward to update regulations to reduce lead in drinking water, but says the effort will take months longer than planned.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that it would delay its publication of proposed changes to federal regulation of lead and copper in drinking water until August 2018, having previously set out to have them released by January 2018. It similarly pushed back the timeline for finalizing the changes to February 2020, seven months after its previous deadline....