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EPA Fails to Inform Public About Weed-Killer in Drinking Water

Number 24247
Subject Water
Source Huffington Post Investigative Fund
State DC
Year 2009
Publication Date 08/23/2009; 08/27/2009; 09/01/2009; 09/04/2009; 10/07/2009;
Summary The Environmental Protection Agency kept secret the high level of the herbicide atrazine found in the water supply of communities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kansas. Residents were not alerted and were actually given false water readings from state and local authorities.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 21
Keywords atrazine; environmental protection agency; watershed; water; herbicide; weed-killer; Huffington Post Investigative Fund; drinking; safety; public; health;
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