EMERGENCY GUIDE MAY REVIVE FAILED EFFORT TO RELAX WATER STANDARDS

摘要

EPA's use of a controversial method to calculate the drinking water protections in its draft nuclear emergency guide is prompting some activists to accuse agency officials of trying to use the document as a vehicle for reviving a decades-old proposal to relax the agency's drinking water standards that a federal court previously rejected.rnThe accusations come as activists are gearing up to pressure newly confirmed Obama appointees to the agency to abandon the nuclear emergency guide, and activists say their contention that the drinking water protections are at least in part based on the old proposal bolsters their argument against the controversial draft document.