Tag Archives: Environmental Protection Agency

Homeless students share their stories, a Flint mother tells about the poisoning of her family, and a local business owner divulges details of his rock and roll past… on episode 36 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 19, 2016

HOMELESSNESS AMONG STUDENTS IN WASHTENAW COUNTY… After kicking things off with the awesome into song written by our recent guest Frank Allison, we jumped right into things with Eastern Michigan University student Ramone Williams, the subject of a recent investigative piece on homelessness among Michigan’s college students. Williams told us about the circumstances that lead […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Local Business, Michigan, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Allie Schachter, anemia, Brittney Barros, charity, Chris Stranad, citizen scientist, Coming Down is Harder, compassion, corrosion control, coverups, Eastern Michigan University, Education Project for Homeless Youth, Emergency Manager, empathy, EMU, entrepreneurship, EPA, failure to thrive, Fantasee Lighting, Flint, Flint River, Grand Funk Railroad, Grande Ballroom, Grateful, homelessness, housing instability, Illuminart, Kate de Fuccio, Keith Richards, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, lead poisoning, Led Zeppelin, Lee Anne Walters, lighting, Magic, Marc Edwards, McKinney-Vento, MDEQ, Megan DeVoe, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, National Science Foundation, Ozone House, Pete Larson, public health, public health emergency, Ramone Williams, Rick Snyder, scandals, Six Pack Portrait Project, Stefan Graf, things I'm thankful for, water | 12 Comments

This is why we use the word “coverup” when talking about the Flint water crisis

By Mark | January 17, 2016

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 […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged accountability, Alec Gibbs, Bernie Sanders, Brad Wurfel, corrosion control, corruption, coverups, Dan Wyant, Dennis Muchmore, Emergency Manager, EPA, Flint, Flint River, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, LCR, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Legionnaires' disease, Miguel Del Toral, protests, public health, Rick Snyder, scandal, scandals, state of emergency, transparency, water | 17 Comments

The Feds are investigating the Snyder administration’s role in poisoning the children of Flint

By Mark | January 6, 2016

On December 31, the editors of the Flint Journal printed an editorial asking Governor Snyder to go beyond just apologizing for the public health emergency caused by his administration Flint and open up state records to federal investigators, so it could be determined how it came to pass that the people of Flint were not […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged accountability, Brad Wurfel, cover-up, Dan Wyant, Emergency Manager, EPA, Flint, Flint water crisis, Justice Department, lead, lead poisoning, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Mike Glasgow, Pure Michigan, Rachel Maddow, Rick Snyder, Sara Wurfel, transparency, U.S. Attorney's Office, water | 8 Comments

Just one week after the midterm elections, an all out assault on the EPA has begun… This is what we get for not voting

By Mark | November 20, 2014

Just after winning reelection a little over a week ago, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority would be to “rein in” the EPA. That’s right, the incoming Senate Majority Leader, when telling his constituents what he intended to do with his newfound power, didn’t mention the fighting for the middle class, or […]

Posted in Alternative Energy, energy, Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew A. Rosenberg, anti-science, EPA, EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2014, global climate change, Global Warming, H.R. 1422, Jim Inhofe, Jim Inhofee, Mitch McConnell, Science, Union of Concerned Scientists | 11 Comments

Rand Paul, savior of Detroit or destroyer of the American middle class?

By Mark | December 8, 2013

Trying to put some distance between himself and his most recent plagiarism scandal, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has aspirations of running for President in 2016, made his way to Michigan yesterday, promising to unveil a plan that would help turn around not only Detroit, but every struggling community across the United States. According to […]