Expenses a company has when it drills for oil or natural gas. Intangible drilling costs are sometimes convenient for a company's tax purposes because it can deduct intangible drilling costs in one year when the company perhaps found little or no oil from profits made in a different year when the company does find oil.
Bruce Lanphear, a professor at Simon Fraser University and also an expert in lead toxicity, said Edwards not only studies the impact of lead in water, but he makes his testing available to communities in need, like he did in Flint.
Taking a shower, brushing my teeth, I mean, the water is just terrible. And I don't even understand why we have to pay the water bill, said Flint resident Lashaunda Horton. According to the EPA, bathing and showering should be safe for adults and children, and human skin does not absorb lead in water.