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It would also provide annual funds of $200 million toward wastewater treatment and water utility assistance.
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Research by the Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy and research organization, indicates 328 military sites nationwide have been contaminated by PFAS, resulting in drinking water contamination that affects more than 200 million Americans.
The legislation comes from two lawmakers whose state has been plagued by the Flint water crisis, which began in 2014. Contaminated water was piped in from the Flint River to the homes of residents, causing lead pipes to leach their substance into the supply. The lead concentration in the water caused health problems for both adults and children.
With more than 30 years of experience working at the intersection of public policy and consumer advocacy, Erik D. Olson currently directs NRDC s advocacy initiatives on health, food, and agriculture, including campaigns on drinking water protection, toxins in products and the environment, pesticides, food additives, antibiotics, and efforts related to agriculture and climate change. For 15 years, he worked as a senior attorney at NRDC and as the director of its Advocacy Center and Public Health program before leaving to serve as general counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Later, he oversaw food safety and other food-related work at The Pew Charitable Trusts; he rejoined NRDC in 2013. Olson s work has led to the first major overhaul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration s food safety laws in more than 70 years, as well as revamped laws protecting the nation s drinking water and food supply from pesticides. He holds degrees from Columbia Univers
Newark and New Jersey officials reach settlement in yearslong lawsuit over lead contamination of city drinking water
The city of Newark, New Jersey, resolved yearslong litigation Tuesday in connection to its water crisis, in which city drinking water was contaminated with illegally high levels of lead.
Officials from the city and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) reached an agreement with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Newark Education Workers Caucus, which sued city and state officials in June 2018 for ongoing violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, including their failure to address the lead crisis on a timely basis.