Ronnie Levin, a former lead EPA scientist in charge of protecting communities and workers from contamination from lead in the United States talks about the growing attacks on the EPA and how this threatens communities and working people throughout the United States. Levin also discusses the health effects of lead contamination on people and children. She is now with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She and other EPA workers are being bullied and pushed out of the agency by the Scott Pruitt EPA administrator appointed by the Trump administration.
Additional media:
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/climat…youts-pruitt.html
youtu.be/zRO80A6r6rs
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