17 May 2018

Row over water contamination in US has NZ implications

From Morning Report, 8:23 am on 17 May 2018

A furor has erupted in the US over the Trump administration heading off a water contamination study that has implications for New Zealand. The study concludes firefighting foam chemicals pose a danger to human health at far lower concentrations than official safety levels in both the US and Australia, and in New Zealand. White House aides in newly revealed emails labelled the study a "public relations nightmare". Phil Pennington reports.