HOUSTON%u2014 Newly-released e-mails from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality show the agency%u2019s top commissioners directed staff to continue lowering radiation test results, in defiance of federal EPA rules.
The e-mails and documents, released under order from the Texas Attorney General to KHOU-TV, also show the agency was attempting to help water systems get out of formally violating federal limits for radiation in drinking water. Without a formal violation, the water systems did not have to inform their residents of the increased health risk.
%u201CIt%u2019s a conspiracy at the TCEQ of the highest order,%u201D said Tom Smith, of the government watchdog group Public Citizen. %u201CThe documents have indicted the management of this commission in a massive cover-up to convince people that our water is safe to drink when it%u2019s not.%u201D
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