Chaffetz probes EPA's inaction in New York water crisis

The House oversight chairman is blasting the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for allowing a dangerous water contamination problem to spiral out of control in New York for nearly a year before the agency took action.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a letter sent to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy late Wednesday that he wants to know “how and why” the residents of Hoosick Falls were not warned of a deadly carcinogen in their water supply even after the agency was made aware of the problem.