Texas politicians knew agency hid the amount of radiation in drinking water

http://www.khou.com/news/investigative/-Texas-politicians-knew-agency-hid-the-amount-of-radiation-in-drinking-water-122205439.html


Newly-released e-mails from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality show the agency’s top commissioners directed staff to continue lowering radiation test results, in defiance of federal EPA rules.

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“It’s a conspiracy at the TCEQ of the highest order,” said Tom Smith, of the government watchdog group Public Citizen. “The documents have indicted the management of this commission in a massive cover-up to convince people that our water is safe to drink when it’s not.”

Smith is talking about what happened to residents who live in communities served by utilities like Harris County Municipal Utility District 105. For years, tests performed by the Texas Department of State Health Services showed the utility provided water that exceeded the EPA legal limit for exposure to alpha radiation.

However, the TCEQ would consistently subtract off each test’s margin of error from those results, making the actual testing results appear lower than they actually were. In MUD 105’s case, the utility was able to avoid violations for nearly 20 years, thanks to the TCEQ subtractions.

-very long snip about what they did and how it was found out and who is suing-
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Gov. Perry said he thinks everybody should follow the law

(but not him or his)

Everyone that knew about this should be charged with attempted murder.
Until these people are held to account for their actions this shit will continue

:banghead: