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.
The bout with pneumonia hasnât slowed Michael Moore too much, though. Just hours after posting his health update, he posted on Facebook a commercial he had directed drawing attention to the water crisis in Flint, where residents are battling public officials over dangerous levels of lead in their drinking water.