{"id":416,"date":"2009-09-12T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-09-12T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:04:22","slug":"epa-flunks-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/epa-flunks-clean-water\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA flunks clean water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you think the government is protecting you from skanky drinking water, here&#8217;s some hot news from the <em>New York Times<\/em> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/13\/us\/13water.html?_r=1&#038;hp\"> &#8220;In the last five years alone, chemical factories, manufacturing plants and other workplaces have violated water pollution laws more than half a million times.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not to leave it that, the <em>Times<\/em> goes on to the juicy stuff &#8211; &#8220;State officials have repeatedly ignored obvious illegal dumping, and the Environmental Protection Agency, which can prosecute polluters when states fail to act, has often declined to intervene.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clean_Water_Act\">Clean Water Act<\/a> contains a citizen&#8217;s suit provision, whereby Joe the Plumber can sue polluters on his own behalf. Try it, you&#8217;ll like it!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you think the government is protecting you from skanky drinking water, here&#8217;s some hot news from the New York Times &#8211; &#8220;In the last five years alone, chemical factories, manufacturing plants and other workplaces have violated water pollution laws more than half a million times.&#8221; Not to leave it that, the Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}