Blame game in water woe

State health officials on Tuesday blamed the feds for an upstate water-contamination crisis, claiming the US Environmental Protection Agency offered “confusing” guidance on drinking-water safety.

Their assessment came in a state Senate hearing on the contamination in Hoosick Falls, a village 35 miles northeast of Albany where the toxic chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, has been found in the water supply.

“The EPA made the situation worse by failing to regulate PFOA for 15 years and then changing the recommendations,” Commissioner Basil Seggos of the state Department of Environmental Conservation charged.