Shitstain's EQ Nominee Systematically Led TX Efforts To Underreport Radiation In Drinking Water
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump’s pick for a powerful White House environmental post, is backing away from her testimony before senators denying a role in under reporting radiation contamination in Texas drinking water.
White, the former chair of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), said during her nomination hearing last month before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, “I would never, ever tell staff to under report health hazards. That’s the only statement I wanted to make.”
After the hearing and a Scripps News report that pointed to TCEQ documents which suggested White played a central role in under reporting radiation, the Senate committee followed up on White’s testimony and requested she clarify her position in writing.
The Senate committee honed in on a 2004 document that showed White openly supported a TCEQ policy of subtracting the margin of error from tests for radiation contamination in water. If a public water supply was found to have amounts of naturally occurring radium or uranium that exceeded federal limits, Texas regulators would subtract the margin of error and lower the results. Under White’s leadership, the agency presented testimony that said, “Maintaining this calculation procedure will eliminate approximately 35 violations.” Radiation science experts say White’s actions probably allowed drinking water with increased cancer risk to remain untreated.
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