Suzanne Novak, Attorney, Northeast Office: “If we don’t prohibit charging a customer, we may very well end up with a two-tiered system, where wealthier communities, which are disproportionately white, will have more of their lead service lines replaced than in other communities.”
Suzanne is a litigator and policy advocate in the organization’s Healthy Communities Program, where she focuses on safe drinking water, with a current emphasis on lead and PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).
Illegal permit allowed industrial animal operations to prepare pollution prevention plans without agency oversight or public input, threatening drinking and recreational waters