EPA Officials Push Back On GOP Criticism Of LCR's Role In Flint Crisis

摘要

EPA water officials are pushing back against some Republican lawmakers' suggestion that the agency's failure to update its lead and copper rule (LCR) since 1991 contributed to the Flint, MI, drinking water crisis, while also saying the agency is considering a wide range of comments in deciding how to revise the rule. "I do not accept the conclusion that says the reason things went wrong [in Flint] is because you have a rule that was broken," EPA drinking water chief Peter Grevatt told drinking water utilities March 21. "If a rule, no matter how good it is, is implemented poorly, that rule is not gonna protect the public. You need people who are rolling up their sleeves. You cannot do that with a good rule alone, you have to make sure everyone is playing their part."