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WNEM Saginaw
April 26, 2018
The EPA has awarded the Virginia Tech researcher who first identified lead in water systems in Flint, Michigan, and Washington, DC, with a $1.9 million ... EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a statement, "This research will move us one step closer to advancing our work to eradicate lead in drinking water.
WNCT
April 25, 2018
The first initiative is collecting clean drinking water for people still suffering from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The group will hold multiple fundraisers to help achieve their goal. Lockhart said he got the idea from a local artist who painted water bottles and sold them for the cause. He said there is a wayÃâà...
Michigan Radio
April 25, 2018
The cascade of mistakes and missteps that followed led to elevated lead levels in Flint's tap water, public fear, mistrust in government and hundreds of millions of federal and state dollars to fix Flint's broken water system. Flint's drinking water source was switched back to Detroit two and a half years ago,Ãâà...
NJ.com
April 25, 2018
Citing "dangerous" levels of lead in Newark's drinking water, an environmental nonprofit that sued Flint, Michigan over lead contamination is now threatening to sue New Jersey's largest city. The group says about 20 percent of water samples taken from across Newark last year exceeded acceptable federalÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
April 25, 2018
LANSING – Michigan would have more state troopers, one fewer prison and no more free bottled water for Flint residents under budget bills approved by the ... Snyder recently ended free bottled water distribution in Flint, where drinking water became contaminated with lead in 2014 because of a series ofÃâà...
Business Insider
April 23, 2018
Flint, Michigan resident LeeAnne Walters is a 2018 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism. Walters tested her own drinking water in Flint and found it was more potent than toxic waste. Walters says her children still have hand-eye coordination issues and speech impairment as a result of the leadÃâà...
CNN
April 11, 2018
"Bottled water may be ending, but the state's commitment to the residents of Flint remains strong," said Rich Baird, senior adviser to Snyder, in a statement last week. Nearly four years after the crisis began with the contamination of the city's drinking water, many residents still don't believe it's safe to drink theÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 9, 2018
Volunteers distribute bottled water to help combat the effects of the crisis when the city's drinking water became contaminated with dangerously high levels of lead in Flint, Michigan on March 5, 2016.Jim Young / Reuters file. The city's water has tested below the federal lead and copper limit of 15 parts perÃâà...
CNN
April 7, 2018
To save money, officials switched the city's water source in 2014 from Lake Huron to the Flint River, which is 19 times more corrosive, according to researchers from Virginia Tech. Soon, the water started to look, smell and taste odd. The switch caused lead to leach from pipes into the city's drinking water.
HuffPost
March 15, 2018
He pointed to Detroit's high rates of asthma; to lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan; to the toxic sludge left behind in Kent County by the company behind Hush .... To raise the money, he suggested issuing $600 million in bonds and passing a ballot proposal to expand the state's Drinking Water Revolving Fund,Ãâà...
Boulder Weekly
March 15, 2018
Research and analysis done by Dr. Sammy Zahran, associate professor in the departments of epidemiology and demography at CSU, and his colleagues show that the rate of LD was almost seven times higher than normal in Flint and surrounding areas while the city culled drinking water from the taintedÃâà...
Quartz
March 15, 2018
The Flint water crisis was the product of government inaction, mostly attributed to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Now, the same state agency is in the spotlight for a delay in responding to another drinking water scandal, this time involving waterproofing chemicals and Hush PuppiesÃâà...
Science Daily
March 14, 2018
Since the Flint Water Crisis in Michigan, concern in the U.S. over lead in drinking water has increased. Information about water from private wells has been limited because such wells are exempt from the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act, the 1986 Lead Ban and the 2011 Reduction of Lead in Drinking WaterÃâà...
Michigan Radio
March 14, 2018
“We heard the cries of the community,” Weaver told reporters. “We share those same concerns.” The cost of water shut-offs is not the only water service problem facing Flint's city leaders. There are also the ongoing issues with lead contamination in the drinking water that put Flint in the national spotlight.
HuffPost
March 6, 2018
The Flint water crisis became a national topic in 2014 after city officials began using the Flint River as the town's main water source. The city's pipes were dangerously corroded, and they polluted the water with dangerously high levels of lead. In one study, the Environmental Protection Agency found leadÃâà...
Roanoke Times
February 28, 2018
In the op-ed titled “U.S. Drinking Water Problems: Flint, Michigan and Beyond” published in the Roanoke Times on 16 May 2016, I mentioned the existence of pockets of communities across the U.S. where there could be problems with availability of safe drinking water. To understand the problem better,Ãâà...
MLive.com
February 27, 2018
FLINT, MI -- Special prosecutors have made their case to bind the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services over to Genesee ... who said Lyon and DHHS did little to help find the cause of the outbreaks in 2014 and 2015, the same time the city used the Flint River for drinking water.
Michigan Radio
February 27, 2018
Last month, the state of Michigan declared Flint's drinking water quality "restored. ... Since the crisis, Flint's drinking water system has been one of the most closely monitored in the country. ... More than 30,000 water samples have been tested from homes in Flint since the water crisis made national news.
AccuWeather.com
December 31, 1999
In the wake of a nearly four-year water crisis in Flint, Michigan, Governor Rick Synder has announced an end to the distribution of free bottled water for the ... This led to the possible exposure to dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water, which can result in damage to the heart and kidneys, decreasedÃâà...
MLive.com
December 31, 1999
FLINT, MI -- The state is getting an expensive daily reminder of the cost of the Flint water crisis more than two years after acknowledging it -- a bill that amounts to more than $22,000 every 24 hours. Records from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality detail the latest spending, one of the stateÃâà...
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