"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn’t do enough to stop hundreds of hazardous chemicals from getting into waterways via sewage plants, a watchdog report found.

The EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said the agency uses the Clean Water Act to regulate only 126 toxic chemicals that could flow to sewage plants, leaving about 300 chemicals that are considered hazardous under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

'These regulations are not effective in controlling the discharge of hundreds of hazardous chemicals to surface waters such as lakes and streams,' the OIG concluded."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill September 29, 2014. [2]