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| Clean Water Laws Consistently Ignored |
| Sunday, 13 September 2009 06:41 |
 An extensive investigation by the New York Times has revealed that more and more companies are consistently violating the Clean Water Act and are incurring little if any penalties despite the dangers the violations pose to human health.
The investigation revealed that in the last five years companies have violated water pollution laws more than half a million times. Violations range from fairly minor violations like not reporting the emission of chemicals to dangerous practices like dumping cancer causing toxins into potential water sources.
According to the investigation most companies violating water laws are not punished by local and state regulators even when the violations include practices like dumping. Also, despite their ability to act when state and local authorities don't, the Environmental Protection Agency often declines to intervene.
The investigation is being published as a multi-part series the first installment of which was published on Saturday, September 12th. As part of their investigation the Times compiled a national database of water violations that can be searched by state, city, and zip code.
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