ALBANY— While the Cuomo administration has been extensively
criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water
pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top
state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama
administration’s increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe
consumption levels.
The Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm even though
federal regulators warned senior health department officials that
people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they were drinking water that
contained dangerous levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other
serious health problems, according to documents recently obtained by
POLITICO New York through a Freedom of Information Request.
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