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Read 1 Peter 1:17-23
If you have never been to any of the Smithsonian Museums, you should put that on your bucket list.
I have gone several times, and I think every time I went I always included the Air and Space museum. They are all fantastic, but that one always amazed me.
While you are in the neighborhood, you should check out the monuments. Wow!
When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton, California I attended several Padres baseball games. The first time that you enter a major league baseball stadium it just takes your breath.
Some of you have seen pictures of the deck in my courtyard. Actually, most of you have seen dozens of pictures of my deck. Here's the first board being set, here we are at half way complete and nearly complete, and complete, and complete with new patio chairs.
Then of course, you had to witness the same pictures with my granddaughter on the new deck. What can I say, there are some sights that you just have to see before you die.
I have never been to the new stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play. I am sure it has to be something—a sight to see to be sure.
I have yet to see the pyramids or the Great Wall of China or the Cubs win the pennant, but perhaps one day I will have the pleasure, at least for the first two.
I have seen the Highway of Death north of Kuwait City.
I have seen wild dogs that roamed the desert without fear of man after feasting on human flesh at the end of the first Gulf War.
I have seen hunger and suffering in so many places.
And all of these things have one thing in common.
These magnificent sights and these encounters that bring tears to the eye both share a common quality.
They are temporary.
They won't last.
They are here but for a time.
We may stand in awe of them.
We may be shocked by them.
But these things of grandeur and these things that are appalling are both temporary.
If you have ever bought and sold a house or placed money in the stock market, you know that monetary value is elusive, sometimes even hitting absurd extremes at both ends of the spectrum.
If you have ever had a major operation and then looked at your hospital bill you might be amazed at the total cost. Some is paid by insurance. Some is paid by the person who had the operation or his or her family. Some of the cost is just written off by the hospital.
Sometimes what you pay is determined by what you or your insurance can and will pay.
All of this leading up to a single question: How much does it really cost?
My wife comes back from shopping at one of her favorite stores telling me that she got something that was half of half of half off again, plus a 10% discount. I get a frown when I say, "And the store still made money on the sale."
Now if someone kidnapped your children and offered their safe return for a designated ransom, would you pay the ransom?
For those full of bravado and hubris, let's just say that for the sake of this single question, say that you are not superman, cannot find and rescue your children with your X-Ray vision and superpowers, and that the only real choices you have are to pay the ransom or not pay it.
Of course you pay it.
Kidnapping is a terrible crime and that's why our laws against it include severe punishment.
Holding someone captive, enslaving them if you will, is despicable.
But in the final analysis, most of us would do what we had to do to rescue our kids.
In that moment, we might just see that all of our money and our valued possessions and our property only have value in terms of saving those we love.
Peter is writing, most likely from Rome, to those believers in Asia Minor—modern day Turkey. He reminds them that they are born again to a new hope—a living hope.
He reminds them that much of the suffering they have endured has been because they follow Jesus.
They are strangers—aliens in this world.
Everything around them is corrupt. Everything born of this world is corruptible.
But they have been redeemed, rescued, ransomed by what is incorruptible.
The standards of that day—and to some extent even our own day—were silver and gold. These two precious metals were the standard by which other things were valued.
Today we still use the term "Gold Standard" to describe something by which we measure all others.
But Peter told these believers that even silver and gold were just perishable things. Peter put gold and silver in the same category as the Manna that God's children received in the wilderness.
It was good for a short time only and then it was not good at all.
The bread store in the wilderness went out of business quickly because no one was buying day old Manna. Even the there is protein in those maggots campaign didn't help, probably because Dr. Oz didn't endorse it, but nobody wanted that stinky day-old Manna.
But Peter's words put gold and silver in the same category. They are perishable commodities.
Whenever I get home after we have gone grocery shopping, I always prioritize getting the cold stuff in first. We have been buying a lot of frozen fruit and juicing lately and one day last month, I missed a bag of frozen strawberries and mangos and some other super fruit. It remained in the back floorboard of my truck for a couple days.
When I discovered it, I wondered, "Could I just throw this in the freezer?"
Wiser heads prevailed and the fermenting super fruits made it to the compost pile instead.
I just don't like oversights like that. I don't like wasting things, especially when I am the one who insists that we get the perishable stuff put away as soon as we get home.
Peter says, "It is all perishable. Not even silver and gold will be counted as incorruptible."
The only thing of value will be the blood of Jesus. For it is by his blood that we are redeemed, rescued, ransomed.
Jesus said: Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
In the revelation that was given to John the Apostle while he was exiled to Patmos, we read:
Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death' or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!"
Everything will be made new.
And if it will all be made new, not repaired but made new, then everything thing that we see around us will be gone.
Some of you are crying now because you just paid $12,000 for a new roof or you just pressure washed and water sealed your deck.
It is all going to be gone.
Perishable, corruptible, temporary, short –lived, decaying, transitory, provisional, momentary, brief, limited, passing—are we getting the picture?
We live here for such a short time. We are just a mist and then we are gone, but even the stuff that we think will last forever, doesn't last forever.
And Peter could have just left it at that, except he was doing more than looking beyond the temporal nature of this world to life in our eternal destination.
He wanted to give those in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, Burns Flat, Dill City, Foss, and Canute some guidance and encouragement on how to live in this temporary home until we get to move into the mansion.
Those who have purchased land and decided to build a home on it sometimes go this route.
· Buy land.
· Buy trailer house.
· Put trailer house on land.
· Live in trailer while the house is being built.
· Say extra prayers that all tornados miss you by a whole bunch.
· Finish the house.
· Move out of the trailer and into the house.
In the course of this journey you might find that parts of trailer house living are different than living in the mansion.
Perhaps you endure some things in your temporary quarters that you won't have to worry about once your house is ready to occupy.
Peter was writing instructions for trailer house living before the trailer house was even invented.
Some folks might live in a trailer house all of their lives and not need to move into a mansion until it is the one that Jesus went to prepare for us.
But we still need to heed the instructions for living in temporary quarters.
This world is not our home but we are not home yet.
Are we there yet? No, but our reservation is confirmed, guaranteed, and our room is ready. Our journey here continues.
So Peter tells us—those who have been ransomed by the blood of Christ—that we need to live holy lives.
In the midst of this temporary situation we need to live by our permanent character.
It is a character based on knowing that before we were born, even before this earth was born, God knew what had to take place to redeem a creation that would go astray.
God knew that one day his Son—his one and only Son—would make an incredible sacrifice for people whom he loved but who did not love him back.
God set creation into motion giving us free will and knowing that he would not be our first choice, that we would rebel, that we would not love him, that we would choose sin over life.
God knew what it would cost to redeem us. Such revelation did not become clear to us until the Messiah came and conquered sin and death by his blood and God's own Spirit opened the eyes of the disciples and opened our eyes as well.
God gave prophecy, but few had vision to understand before it came to pass.
An Unblemished Lamb would take away our sin, and in this sacrifice, we would know eternity in loving relationship with our Father.
That relationship is forever: Eternal, imperishable, everlasting, without end.
We are still living in the trailer house, but we are people who know without a doubt that we will live in the mansion.
So for everything that counts, we live as people who live in the mansion.
What counts? Everything that is not temporary.
We are holy because our Father is holy.
We love one another with sincerity.
We love one another deeply.
The things of this world pass away but our love is sincere and our love is deep.
We live in hope—a living hope.
We used to live in ignorance but now we live with purpose.
We used to be adrift but now our helm is set.
We used to crave the things of the world—those perishable things—but now we only use them with purpose.
Now we see the things of this world as consumable items to be used to bring glory to God.
He has rescued us, redeemed us, ransomed us from the way we used to be.
How will we respond?
Here is a word that you won't like if you, if you are comfortable living in the trailer house.
What word?
I know that word. Obedience is what we want from our children but resist giving to God.
We think, maybe when I get out of the trailer house and into the mansion then I will be into this obedience thing. Yep, that's the ticket.
Peter says, and why it is not translated this way I will never understand, he says, "That dog don't hunt."
The Message says it this way.
Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life.
You new life is not like your old life. You have been born of God.
Doesn't this sound a lot like Jesus talking to Nicodemus?
Peter is not espousing a new doctrine of his own. He is putting day-to-day directions to being born again.
Sometimes we think of obedience as following the rules. I ask you to consider obedience as following Jesus and just watching the rules fall into place.
You might think that I have taken you on the mixed metaphor mania mantra migration and even with a little consonance in the explanation as we explored Peter's instructions on trailer house living.
But let's refine the metaphor mania with some simile sanity.
Live today like tomorrow is not promised but eternity is.
Love today like your cup will never run out and the cup of your brother or sister whom you love will never be filled.
Obey God's calling and commands like it was your own idea to begin with.
Obey God like you are obeying your own idea.
Okay, those might not be perfect similes, but cut me a little syntax slack here. This one is a real simile.
Obeying God while we live in the trailer house is like having a little piece of that mansion that awaits us right in the middle of this temporary world.
We are being purified and sanctified and made holy in our obedience to God in this very temporary situation.
Everything that we see around us is temporary, perishable, and transient; but God is making us into who we will be for eternity.
We have been redeemed, rescued, and ransomed from sin, death, and the perishable nature of this world.
How will we respond?
I pray that it is with love, sincere love, deep love, and obedience to the truth.
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MIDDLEBURY — What began as an athletic curiosity has turned into a full-fledged club.
More than a year ago, then-middle schooler Alex Eash showed an interest in lacrosse. That led to his father, Gregg Eash, finding him a place with a Mishawaka-based club, the Michiana Falcons.
Last fall, the seeds were planted for what has become Middlebury Lacrosse. A introductory clinic was held and many players took part in an indoor 7-on-7 league at the Elkhart Sports Center (outdoor lacrosse is generally 10-on-10).
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Gregg Eash began educating himself about the sport with books and YouTube videos.
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2. Create an adventure – Some dogs don't get out much, and that's just plain wrong. Try taking your furry pals out for a car ride. Put your windows down, fasten your pups securely in a seat restraint (it's true, they make car seats and seat belts for dogs), and watch the jubilation on their faces as the wind blows through their hair. Want to make it an extra special car ride? Take them to a friend's place, a party, or maybe even an outdoor mall, where you can shop while they meet some other friendly dogs.
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Dead End in Norvelt
by Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt Chapter 2 Summary
- When Jack gets to Miss Volker's house the next morning, a box of chocolates with a card attached is sitting upon her doorstep.
- This is a welcome sight for Jack, who just loves gossip. Only he calls it "whisper history" (2.14), which does make it sound better.
- The gift is from Mr. Edwin Spizz, who has a thing for Miss Volker.
- Mr. Spizz has signed the card, "Your swain since 1912" (2.14). (Jack doesn't know what a "swain" is, but lucky you—you've got Shmoop. "Swain" is an old-fashioned term for a boyfriend or admirer and comes from an archaic term for "servant").
- Mr. Spizz is an original resident of Norvelt and works for the "Norvelt Association for the Public Good" (2.15). He is also quite full of himself and Jack considers him somewhat "sinister" (2.15).
- Now here's something you don't see every day: Miss Volker is cooking her hands in a pot of boiling water when Jack enters her home.
- It turns out that Miss Volker does not like Mr. Spizz very much. She wants the chocolates thrown out.
- She continues cooking her hands, and they come out all melted (2.36).
- After soaking her hands in cold water, Miss Volker asks Jack to "peel it off" (2. 44). Oh, dear—this doesn't sound good.
- It looks like Miss Volker is more than just a little bit nutty. She bites off what appears to be a chunk of her own flesh (2.46).
- Jack pleads with Miss Volker to not eat her own flesh (2.47)—bear with us here, because this is actually pretty funny. Just then his nose spews blood all over the place, and he promptly faints.
- When Jack comes to, he's convinced that Miss Volker has gone all Walking Dead on him and is about to have a snack. Namely, him.
- Not so much. It turns out, Miss Volker has horrible arthritis. Too bad for her, good news for Jack. The melting wax on her hands makes her feel better temporarily.
- The arthritis means that she needs Jack's help in writing down the obituaries that she composes.
- Miss Volker, we find out, used to be a nurse.
- Jack's first obituary is for Emma Devers Slater, and by her death date we get the time period of the novel: the summer of 1962. (Mrs. Slater dies on June 15, 1962.)
- We learn that the town was founded by Eleanor Roosevelt (get it? EleaNOR RooseVELT).
- Miss Volker sees writing these obituaries as her duty to Mrs. Roosevelt, though, so be honest, we're not quite sure why.
- What Miss Volker really likes to do, though, is to sneak in some extra reading for the town's residents, and she does this by including bonus historical tidbits with each obit. Sort of like putting zucchini in your chocolate waffles.
- For Emma Slater's obituary, Miss Volker gives a brief account of Wat Tyler and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
- What does Wat Tyler have to do with some dead lady? Miss Volker explains the connection between the town of Norvelt (common people who work hard and want equality) with the medieval peasants (common people who worked hard and wanted equality).
- With Mrs. Slater's death, all but eight of the original Norvelt residents from the town's founding in 1934 have passed away or left. This seems to be important.
- Jack types up the obituary. He's never typed before, so we imagine it involves a lot of hunting and pecking.
- And now we find out why Miss Volker writes the obituaries: she was appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to be the town's chief nurse and medical examiner. The obituaries are her "closing tribute" to Mrs. Roosevelt.
- She claims she will outlive all of the other original residents, because she must fulfill this duty.
- Miss Volker gives Jack a book (Lost Worlds) in exchange for his work (notice how she calls the book "brain food") (2.114).
- She recounts Eleanor Roosevelt urging students to "learn their history or they'd be 'doomed to dust' like one of the Lost Worlds" (2.118).
- Jack delivers his first typed obituary to Mr. Greene at the Norvelt News.
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NASHVILLE (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- One in every 110 children is diagnosed with some level of autism. For many parents, this usually means problems with communication and little interest in interacting with others. But now a new program is changing how we look at autism by putting kids in the spotlight.
As a carefree 10-year-old Kerrick Coble doesn't hold back. But he wasn't always like this. When Kerrick was two, the Cobles' started noticing something was different about him.
"With a lot of kids you would give them something and they would play but with Kerrick there was never an 'I'm just going to play,'" Kurt Coble, Kerrick's dad told Ivanhoe.
At three, Kerrick was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder or PDD-NOS– a mild form of autism. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University are using the theater to help improve the lives of kids diagnosed with the disorder -- from mild to severe.
"We really want to understand whether these social experiences are really stressful for some of our children," Blythe Corbett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of the Sense Theater at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, told Ivanhoe.
Dr. Corbett looks at social and communication skills before, during and after the camp and looks at stress levels by measuring one of the primary stress hormones--cortisol. In three different studies, Dr. Corbett found acting improved the way kids expressed themselves and they also showed lower stress levels.
"The cortisol level was quite high when they first arrived the first day but after the rehearsal, it actually went down quite a bit," Dr. Corbett said.
So Far, Kerrick's been in two plays, even landing the lead role in his last performance.
"I've seen a big difference in his initiating skills," Michelle Coble, Kerrick's mom told Ivanhoe.
Helping his new found skills take center stage.
For most people, cortisol-level production tends to be greater in the morning than at night but Dr. Corbett's research found children with autism show higher cortisol toward the end of the day which was related to daily stress from changes experienced during the day.
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It is time for a coup.
That is a powerful statement but it is time. We have gone down the road far enough that a coup is now the only option.
What has happened that makes a coup necessary and how must this happen?
The target of the coup is John Boehner. It is time for conservatives in the House of Representatives to rise up and depose John Boehner as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Boehner knows something about coups. He was a part of the abortive coup against then Speaker Newt Gingrich, back in the late 90's.
The Tea Party swept John Boehner into the Speaker's seat in 2010. Back then; the Republicans were saying all of the right things and conservatives believed them. They promised they would fight to repeal Obamacare. They promised they had learned their lesson and from now on would be fiscally responsible. They promised they would stand up against Obama's insane spending and borrowing.
Under John Boehner's leadership, debt is up $3 trillion dollars. So much for fiscal restraint.
Under Boehner's so called leadership, the debt ceiling has been raised. Under his so-called leadership, spending is higher than it was under Nancy Pelosi. Boehner has not stood and fought against Obamacare or anything else.
Soon the final battle will be upon us. That battle is the battle over Amnesty.
If the liberals can get Amnesty passed, they know it will create millions of Democrat voters and will give the Democrats a majority in the government for decades. John Boehner has already said that he wants Amnesty passed.
Congressman Raul Labrador has already warned Republicans not to allow any Immigration bill to be passed and sent to a conference committee with the Senate.
Because if that happens, Boehner will be rolled by Senate Democrats and what will come out of that conference committee will look pretty much like the Senate Amnesty bill.
John Boehner has constantly refused to stand up and fight against the Obama Regime. In March 2011 Tea Party Nation was the first Tea Party group to call for Boehner to be primaried. He needs to be primaried in 2014. And unlike what happened in 2012, there appears to be a good candidate to challenge Boehner this time.
But we cannot wait until 2014 to get Boehner out.
Boehner has been totally unwilling to fight Obama but has been more than willing to punish conservatives who would not sell out their principles for the sake of the GOP's obsession with big government.
It is time for Boehner to go.
The House Speaker has the power to ensure that no Amnesty bill sees the light of day.
If any immigration bill passes and is sent over to the Senate for conference, it will be quickly turned into an amnesty bill, and will be rammed through the House before people have a chance to see what is in it.
Obama will sign it and it will be too late.
There is only one way to ensure this never happens.
John Boehner must go and he must go now.
It is up to the conservatives in the House.
The question is, will they step up now?
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Could'nt agree more.
All the Rinos have to go, and we need to boycott all of the company's that advertise on liberal lying media
I am so tired of the RINO's in Congress, voting against what they said when they ran for office. In my business I only deal with people who do what they say they are going to do. Why should I accept anything less from our "representatives?" I'm ready to spend money, time and votes to get rid of all RINO's!
We now have only a one party system, the Republican party is just another arm of the Democrat party. what we need is another party, perhaps the American Tea party?
How does "American Citizens Party", or ACT, sound?
Boehner as speaker has been one of the biggest mistakes ever made by an American political party.
I think Mark Levin suggested the "Freedom Party" to replace the Republican Party. With all new players of course. But I could be wrong.
Let's get busy with this.
It might also be time to float a recall for John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
If you are correct - that amnesty will instantly create 17 million new Democratic voters - then fighting against amnesty has to be recognized as a desperate rear-guard battle. The demographics are against you, and you are watching a glacier inexorably coming down from the polar cap, helpless to stop it. It will run you over, even though it does so in slow motion. Are you conceding that the Tea Party is a last-gasp collective of angry old white men and women? Rather than fight a hopeless slow-motion battle against demographics, reach out to the immigrants and show them that what you have to offer is more appealing and attractive; convert them to your side; turn that glacier into an enormous supply of refreshing, clear cool water!
Mark, how about recognizing illegal immigration as an act of crime and NOT giving citizenship to criminals.
We have friends from Denmark that have been trying to become citizens for four years now and are denied. The fed's give them temp work visas which they comply with, return home, reapply, and continue the process. One day they will be granted citizenship and can hold their heads up as legal immigrants.
Why do we need to change the rules for the Mexican? (no, I'm not racist. I have Mex/American family and friends).
You sound like a hostage taker trying to convince the hostage that going along is the only way out. Maybe more like Joseph Stalin trying to convince the Russians to accept the inevitable state of Communism. Get a doctor dude.
Boner is only a small part of the problem! We only have 144 in the house and senate that supported AMERICA against #Obamacare (ACA)! That means that the #WashDCparty is the #CorruptFedGov and needs to be removed from power. That said, States need to fight the battle @ the State level with a Constitution Convention #ArticleVnow to retake & invoke control of AMERICA & get the feds out of AMERICA's business. If you want to call that a coup so be it. OP
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Arsenic is nearly synonymous with poison. But most people don't realize that they consume small amounts of it in the food they eat and the water they drink.
Recent research suggests even small levels of arsenic may be harmful. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been prepared to say since 2008 that arsenic is 17 times more toxic as a carcinogen than the agency now reports.
Women are especially vulnerable. EPA scientists have concluded that if 100,000 women consumed the legal limit of arsenic each day, 730 of them eventually would get lung or bladder cancer.
The EPA, however, hasn't been able to make its findings official, an action that could trigger stricter drinking water standards. The roadblock: a single paragraph inserted into a committee report by a member of Congress, an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity found. The paragraph essentially ordered the EPA to halt its evaluation of arsenic and hand over its work to the National Academy of Sciences.
The congressman, Mike Simpson, an Idaho Republican, said he was concerned that small communities couldn't meet tougher drinking water standards and questioned the EPA's ability to do science. But a lobbyist for two pesticide companies acknowledged to CPI that he was among those who asked for the delay. As a direct result of the delay, a weed killer the EPA was going to ban at the end of 2013 remains on the market.
The tactic is among an arsenal of tricks used by industry and lawmakers to virtually paralyze EPA scientists who evaluate toxic chemicals. In 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order seeking to stop political interference with science. The EPA unveiled a plan to evaluate far more chemicals each year than had been done during the George W. Bush or Bill Clinton administrations. In the last two years, however, it's completed only six.
It's now unclear when the agency's arsenic review will be finished, even though scores of studies have linked arsenic not just to cancer, but also to heart disease, diabetes and strokes.
Meanwhile, people like Wendy Brennan, who lives in rural Maine with her two daughters and two grandchildren, are left to worry about all the arsenic-tainted water they've consumed. Brennan participated in a study by Columbia University researchers, who found levels of arsenic in her well water that were more than five times the federal standard.
"My eldest daughter said … 'You're feeding us rat poison,' " Brennan said. "I said, 'Not really,' but I guess essentially, that is what you're doing. You're poisoning your kids."
Then, another shock: The researchers reported that children who drank water containing arsenic – even at levels that met the federal standard – scored six points lower on IQ tests than children who drank clean water.
"Your job as a mother is to give your kids the best," said Brennan, who installed an $800 filter that removes arsenic from her water. "Just by giving my kids juice … giving them cups of water, which you are supposed to do, I was actually giving them a sediment that's settling in their body, and I may not know for 10 years if it's affected them."
Key Findings:
- Arsenic, a potent poison, is found in small amounts in the food we eat and the water we drink.
- EPA scientists have concluded that if 100,000 women consumed the legal limit of arsenic each day, 730 of them eventually would get lung or bladder cancer.
- A single paragraph inserted into a committee report by a member of Congress essentially ordered the EPA to halt its evaluation of arsenic, an action that has kept the agency from tightening its drinking water standard for the toxin.
- A lobbyist for two pesticide companies acknowledged that he was among those who asked for the delay. As a result, a weed killer the EPA was going to ban at the end of 2013 remains on the market.
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Arsenic makes up part of Earth's crust and is commonly found in groundwater. In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lowered the drinking water standard from 50 parts per billion of arsenic to 10 parts per billion. The agency initially had proposed a limit of 5 parts per billion but faced criticism that it would be too costly for water companies to hit that target.
Arsenic is known to cause a variety of cancers and has been linked to heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Recent research has found an association between arsenic levels below 10 parts per billion and IQ deficits in children.
This map is based on arsenic readings from 45,000 wells collected by the U.S. Geological Survey throughout the country, going back four decades. In addition, the states of Texas and Minnesota provided data gathered on arsenic in private wells. In several other states, few readings were available.