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 […]
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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
Posted in Civil Liberties, Environment, Uncategorized Also tagged corrosion control, Dan Kildee, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, House of Representatives, House Oversight Committee, irony, Jason Chaffetz, Joel Beauvais, Keith Creagh, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, Lee Anne Walters, Marc Edwards, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Miguel Del Toral, water 18 Comments
Now that Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley is facing the prospect of a year in prison for contempt, one wonders if he might be persuaded to work with prosecutors
Yesterday, retired Michigan 36th District Court Judge Gregory Ellis “Greg” Mathis came right out and said what a lot of us have been thinking for a while now… that what happened in Flint has all the makings of a criminal case. The EMU-grad-turned-television-personality put it his way: “It appears that there’s criminal negligence here,” he […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics Also tagged Congress, contempt, Detroit Public Schools, domestic terrorism, Elijah Cummings, Emergency Manager, Flint, Greg Mathis, Jason Chaffetz, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Rick Snyder, terrorism, water 12 Comments
Rachel Maddow lays the Flint water public health emergency at the feet of Governor Rick Snyder
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got pissed off a few days ago, when hearing Michigan Governor Rick Snyder suggest that the kids in Flint who are suffering from lead poisoning could have been poisoned not by the actions of his administration, which knowingly continued sending lead tainted water into their homes, but by […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics Also tagged clean water, Emergency Manager, Flint, Flint River, lead, lead poisoning, public health, public health emergency, Rachel Maddow, Rick Snyder 10 Comments