I don’t know what will come of it, but attorneys from New York and Southfield filed racketeering charges against Governor Snyder and several others in Flint’s U.S. District Court this morning, claiming that the Flint water crisis was the direct result of an “intentional scheme” crafted by Snyder and other state officials to balance the […]
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Racketeering lawsuit filed against Governor Snyder alleges conspiracy to balance Flint’s budget by selling free, untreated, toxic river water to the people of Flint
It’s becoming apparent that someone did the math and determined that the lives of every man, woman and child in Flint weren’t worth $8 million
As we’ve all known for quite a while now, evidence that Flint’s children were being poisoned began to surface shortly after it was decided to begin sourcing municipal water from the Flint River in a move to further reduce costs associated with running the once prosperous city, which had been taken over by a governor […]
In an ironic twist, House Republicans, who, up until a few weeks ago, wanted to see the EPA dismantled, argued this morning that what happened in Flint was due to the agency not being aggressive enough
Several people testified before the House Oversight Committee today about the poisoning of Flint’s citizens, including Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident Lee Anne Walters. While most of the local coverage, I suspect, will focus on Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s forceful promise early in the proceedings to have the U.S. Marshals “hunt down” former […]
This is why we use the word “coverup” when talking about the Flint water crisis
In 1991, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a regulation to control the levels of lead and copper in American drinking water. This regulation, which is known as the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), required that, by January 1, 1997, “public water systems serving more than 50,000 people… survey their own corrosion control systems and […]