Community advocates have raised concerns about the EPA’s plan to set a benchmark for lead in water because it won’t protect infants, pregnant women and other sensitive populations.
Those who push an extreme anti-environmental agenda often use the concept of freedom to promote their ideas. They are not concerned with your freedom to breathe clean air or to drink clean water. Instead they want to give corporations the freedom to exploit natural resources without regard for the adverse impacts, and they want to ensure that polluters have freedom from accountability for the potentially deadly impacts of their actions.
