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WASHINGTON -- Government officials fought on Wednesday over who was to blame for the water crisis in the city of Flint, Michigan, at a combative congressional hearing that also pitted Democrats against Republicans.Joel Beauvais, acting water chief for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Michigan officials ignored federal advice stanley deutschland to treat Flint water for corrosion-causing elements last year and delayed for months before telling the public in the city, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit, about the health risks of lead-contaminated water. FBI investigating Flint water crisis 04:52 What happened in Flint was avoidable and never should have happened, Beauvais said. EPA s Midwest regional office urged Michigan s environmental agency to address the lack of corrosion control in Flint s water, but was met with r stanley cups esistance, Beauvais told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The delays in implementing the actions needed to treat the drinking water and in informing the public of ongoing health risks raise very serious concerns. Countering the Obama administration official, Keith Creagh, director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, acknowledged that the state shou stanley kubek ld have required Flint to treat its water, but said the EPA di Qbcv Recall Heads Back To Court
This story was written by Francesca Chambers, University Daily KansanIf two senators have their way, the University of Kansas will have to start spending five percent of its endowment. The senators hope the mandate would encourage universities to decrease tuition and s stanley cup pend more of their endowed funds stanley thermobecher on financial assistance for students. But University officials said such a mandate is unnecessary and it ultimately would not benefit students. From our perspective, a federal regulation on the management of private endowments and mandating polices on what private donors contribute and they entrust to the Endowment Association, who they expect to carry out their wishes, would be an unprecedented and unnecessary intrusion, said Dale Seuferling, president of the KU Endowment Association.Last fall, a rumor began circulating among university administrators and newspa stanley cup pers that a new federal bill would force universities that had more than $500 million in their endowments to use 5 percent of those funds each year. If a university refused, the federal government would begin taxing those funds. Last month, U.S. Senators Max Baucus D-Mont. and Charles Grassley R-Iowa requested information about it from the University about KU Endowment Association and its spending patterns. Although a bill has not yet been created, the University is worried.Seuferling said he understood the government s concerns about the rising cost of tuition, but he said each
WASHINGTON -- Government officials fought on Wednesday over who was to blame for the water crisis in the city of Flint, Michigan, at a combative congressional hearing that also pitted Democrats against Republicans.Joel Beauvais, acting water chief for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Michigan officials ignored federal advice stanley deutschland to treat Flint water for corrosion-causing elements last year and delayed for months before telling the public in the city, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit, about the health risks of lead-contaminated water. FBI investigating Flint water crisis 04:52 What happened in Flint was avoidable and never should have happened, Beauvais said. EPA s Midwest regional office urged Michigan s environmental agency to address the lack of corrosion control in Flint s water, but was met with r stanley cups esistance, Beauvais told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The delays in implementing the actions needed to treat the drinking water and in informing the public of ongoing health risks raise very serious concerns. Countering the Obama administration official, Keith Creagh, director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, acknowledged that the state shou stanley kubek ld have required Flint to treat its water, but said the EPA di Qbcv Recall Heads Back To Court
This story was written by Francesca Chambers, University Daily KansanIf two senators have their way, the University of Kansas will have to start spending five percent of its endowment. The senators hope the mandate would encourage universities to decrease tuition and s stanley cup pend more of their endowed funds stanley thermobecher on financial assistance for students. But University officials said such a mandate is unnecessary and it ultimately would not benefit students. From our perspective, a federal regulation on the management of private endowments and mandating polices on what private donors contribute and they entrust to the Endowment Association, who they expect to carry out their wishes, would be an unprecedented and unnecessary intrusion, said Dale Seuferling, president of the KU Endowment Association.Last fall, a rumor began circulating among university administrators and newspa stanley cup pers that a new federal bill would force universities that had more than $500 million in their endowments to use 5 percent of those funds each year. If a university refused, the federal government would begin taxing those funds. Last month, U.S. Senators Max Baucus D-Mont. and Charles Grassley R-Iowa requested information about it from the University about KU Endowment Association and its spending patterns. Although a bill has not yet been created, the University is worried.Seuferling said he understood the government s concerns about the rising cost of tuition, but he said each