EPA Accountability
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This week on The Daily Beat: We speak with activists and environmental specialists on America’s polluted waterways.
Today on the Daily Beat, Friday August 14, 2015: We speak with an environmentalist on the EPA disaster in the Colorado river. The Navajo Nation, with many residents along the river, declared a state of emergency this week, vowing to hold the EPA fully responsible for its spill, and have demanded that the EPA provide the affected tribes with water until the river is once again usable.
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