{"id":12433,"date":"2013-01-10T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2013-01-11T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T16:19:32","slug":"federal-government-could-seize-control-of-oklahomas-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/10\/federal-government-could-seize-control-of-oklahomas-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government Could Seize Control Of Oklahoma&#8217;s Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma is scrambling to come up with the money to comply with new Environmental Protection Agency clean drinking water regulations.<\/p><p>The state needs $2 million to avert a federal takeover.\u00a0That\u2019s not a lot, considering Oklahoma\u2019s $ 7 billion budget, but so far, the funds haven&#8217;t been easy to get.<\/p><p>If Oklahoma fails to comply, the EPA will take responsibility for the safety of the state\u2019s drinking water. Right now, that\u2019s the <em>state<\/em> Department of Environmental Quality\u2019s job, but it costs money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma is scrambling to come up with the money to comply with new Environmental Protection Agency clean drinking water regulations.The state needs $2 million to avert a federal takeover.\u00a0That\u2019s not a lot, considering Oklahoma\u2019s $ 7 billion budget, but so far, the funds haven&#8217;t been easy to get.If Oklahoma fails to comply, the EPA will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[495,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}