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, Darnell Earley, 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, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Miguel Del Toral, water 18 Comments
Snyder appointed task force deflects blame from Governor in Flint water crisis, identifies scapegoat
For those of you who don’t follow the news over the holidays, choosing instead to focus on family and football, there was a significant development in the Flint water saga between Christmas and New Year’s Day… The task force Govern Sndyer appointed to figure out what happened in Flint that left an alarming number of […]
Posted in Environment, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged accountability, Brad Wurfel, cover-up, Dan Wyant, Emergency Manager, Flint, Flint water crisis, lead, lead poisoning, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Mona Hanna-Attisha, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sara Wurfel, transparency, water 7 Comments
Flint’s Mayor declares state of emergency as lead poisoning cases increase in wake of water fiasco
In hopes of attracting federal public health resources to Flint, where an alarmingly large portion of the population is suffering from lead poisoning as a result of the government’s mismanagement of water resources, the city’s new Mayor, Karen Weaver, declared a state of emergency last night. This comes just months after Flint’s Hurley Medical Center […]
Posted in Environment, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Andy Dillon, Brad Wurfel, copper, Emergency Manager, Erin Brockovich, Flint, Flint River, Hurley Medical Center, Karegnondi Water Authority, lead, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Lindsey Smith, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, state of emergency, water, water fountains 38 Comments