{"id":92768,"date":"2018-01-17T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92768"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:20:26","slug":"shocking-study-shows-170-million-americans-drinking-radioactive-water-and-government-is-hiding-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92768","title":{"rendered":"Shocking study shows 170 million Americans drinking radioactive water and government is hiding it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Matt Agorist
\nThe Free Thought Project<\/p>\n

An ominous environmental report just revealed that the water of 170 million Americans is tainted with radioactive waste and the government is covering it up.<\/span><\/p>\n

A damning\u00a0report<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from the Environmental Working Group has just revealed that drinking water for more than 170 million Americans in all 50 states contains radioactive elements that are shown to cause cancer. Not only does the report expose the deadly levels of radiation but it also shows that officials have been actively covering it up.<\/span><\/p>\n

EWG\u2019s investigation consisted of testing the water supplies of nearly 50,000 public water systems from all 50 states. Researchers found that from \u201c2010 to 2015, more than 22,000 utilities in all 50 states reported radium in the treated water delivered to customers\u2019 taps.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Only a small percentage of the water supplies exceeded what the Environmental Protection Agency considers \u201csafe,\u201d however, their standards for legal radiation limits are more than 40 years old. EWG pointed out that, according to more recent standards, like those set in 2006 in California, nearly 100 percent of tested water supplies failed. These findings make\u00a0Flint, Michigan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0look like child\u2019s play.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost radioactive elements in tap water come from natural sources, but that doesn\u2019t take away the need to protect people through stronger standards and better water treatment,\u201d said Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., EWG\u2019s senior science advisor for children\u2019s environmental health.\u00a0\u201cMillions of Americans are drinking water with potentially harmful levels of radioactive elements<\/b>, but the outdated federal standards mean many people don\u2019t know about the risk they face when they turn on the tap.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is only getting worse too. As EWG reports, the government has long known about this problem and has covered it up by fudging the numbers. Now, one of the people who admitted to fudging the numbers has just been nominated to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, or CEQ.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nominee, Kathleen Hartnett White, admitted in\u00a0a 2011 investigation by Houston\u2019s KHOU-TV<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that if utility tests found radiation levels over the EPA limit, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality would subtract the test\u2019s margin of error to make it appear the water met federal standards. In some cases, this meant that Texans whose tap water posed the extraordinarily elevated lifetime cancer risk of 1 in 400 were not informed of the danger.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Hartnett White told KHOU she did not trust the science behind the EPA\u2019s standard. When pressed by a reporter \u2013 \u201cWhat if you\u2019re wrong and EPA\u2019s right?\u201d \u2013 <\/i>she said: \u201cIt would be regrettable.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Hartnett White told KHOU she did not trust the science behind the EPA\u2019s standard. When pressed by a reporter \u2013 \u201cWhat if you\u2019re wrong and EPA\u2019s right?\u201d \u2013 she said: \u201cIt would be regrettable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only did Hartnett White admit to the media they\u2019d been cooking the books but last month, she told the Senate, who then rescinded her nomination. However, this week, Trump renominated her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPutting someone in charge of CEQ who deliberately falsified data to get around federal regulations is outrageous, and the fact that her deception left people at serious risk of cancer is even more alarming,\u201d said Scott Faber, EWG\u2019s vice president of government affairs.\u00a0\u201cThe Senate should reject this radioactive nominee.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith the renomination of Kathleen Hartnett White to the White House Council of Environmental Quality, President Trump is failing these 170 million at-risk Americans who are drinking contaminated water,\u201d said Christy Goldfuss, vice president for energy and environmental policy at the Center for American Progress. \u201cWhen Hartnett White was tasked with addressing radiation in Texas\u2019s drinking water as a government official,\u00a0she regularly and deliberately underreported the amount of radiation in drinking water, keeping families in the dark about their health and safety.<\/b>\u00a0Putting her in charge of the Council of Environmental Quality could do untold damage to even more Americans. With today\u2019s data revealed, it is even more vital that our leaders and representatives prioritize clean and safe drinking water for all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There you have it. Americans are slowly being given cancer by their government and not only is one of the people responsible for covering it up not getting held accountable, she\u2019s getting a massive promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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