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 […]
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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
Posted in Health, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Brad Wurfel, corrosion, corrosion control, Dan Wyant, Emergency Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, Flint River, Flint water crisis, KWA, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, lead poisoning, MDEQ, Michael Glasgow, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Rick Snyder, water 14 Comments
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 […]
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, Marc Edwards, MDEQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, water 18 Comments
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 […]
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, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, Flint River, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, LCR, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Legionnaires' disease, protests, public health, Rick Snyder, scandal, scandals, state of emergency, transparency, water 17 Comments