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.
Independent Investigators: State Officials Mostly To Blame For Flint Water Crisis. The Flint Water Plant water tower in Flint, Mich. The Flint Water Plant water tower in Flint, Mich. That's how an independent task force opened its final report on the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint. It concluded that primary responsibility for the crisis in Flint, Mich., lies with a state environmental agency called the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality â though it said others are also to blame.