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.
Kildee, D-Flint Twp., made the call in a letter sent to Ryan. For two years, because of a failure of government, nearly 100,000 people living in Flint have not had access to safe drinking water due to lead contamination, Kildee wrote. This is simply unacceptable. The Congress has it in its capacity to help and must act to resolve the crisis.