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The press is biased, they never get it right, and when the EPA in the Trump era says that the press is wrong to claim that toxic waste has been released, the EPA is in the right. Right?
Hurricane Harvey: EPA Finds Damage to Sites After Slamming AP Reporter for Toxic Waste Story
To recap:
1) An AP reporter, after some investigative journalism, says that toxic waste spilled out of Superfund sites in metro Houston.
2) The EPA vehemently denies the report and calls it "yellow journalism."
3) Time passes.
4) The EPA recants and admits that a toxic waste spill has taken place.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need a free press. Well done.
Hurricane Harvey: EPA Finds Damage to Sites After Slamming AP Reporter for Toxic Waste Story
After criticizing an AP report, EPA finds damage and leak at a toxic waste site caused by Hurricane Harvey
The Environmental Protection Agency, which slammed an Associated Press (AP) reporter's story on flooded Houston-area Superfund toxic waste sites as "yellow journalism" after Hurricane Harvey, now admits the dangerous spills occurred.
On Thursday, the EPA said it found damage and toxic material exposed at the San Jacinto River Waste Pits site, one of seven Superfund locations AP writer Michael Biesecker revealed was covered by floodwaters, in a report the agency had derided.
Samples showed dioxins at 70,000 nanograms per kilogram – more than 2,333 times the level that calls for a cleanup, according to the EPA.
To recap:
1) An AP reporter, after some investigative journalism, says that toxic waste spilled out of Superfund sites in metro Houston.
2) The EPA vehemently denies the report and calls it "yellow journalism."
3) Time passes.
4) The EPA recants and admits that a toxic waste spill has taken place.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need a free press. Well done.