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The EPA "battled Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality behind the scenes for at least six months over whether Flint needed to use chemical treatments to keep lead lines and plumbing connections from leaching into drinking water" and "did not publicize its concern that Flint residents' health was jeopardized by the state's insistence ...
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In that time, Michigan started and then stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; criminal charges were brought and then dismissed against several officials for deaths suspected of ...
The state of Michigan has committed to finally remove the toxic lead pipes remaining at hundreds of homes in Flint, a lingering threat exposed earlier this year by Scripps News.
The state of Michigan agreed in 2020 to pay $600 million for its role in what came to be known as the Flint water crisis, and the city of Flint settled for $20 million in the same massive lawsuit.
To implement the 2011 Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act, EPA published a final rule on September 1, 2020. [13] In response to the Flint, Michigan water crisis (2014), EPA published a final rule on January 15, 2021 addressing testing, pipe replacement and related issues. The rule mandates additional requirements for sampling tap water ...
FLINT — For the first time since the water crisis began in 2014, a presidential campaign event was held in Flint Tuesday with no mention of the lead poisoning of the city's drinking water supply
On April 23, 2019, Status Coup released the documentary Flushing Flint which claimed that the water testing by Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) was manipulated by MDEQ staff taking water samples after flushing running water from taps for several minutes before taking the samples, contrary to normal procedures for water ...