Groups sue city, state over Flint water crisis

Baird helped recruit Jones Day bankruptcy lawyer Kevyn Orr to become Detroit’s emergency manager and helped the city navigate the country’s largest municipal bankruptcy in history. Our goal was to deliver 25,000 cases of water to the residents of Flint.

“Proposal offers a today rate of water for Flint/Genessee of $10.46 as compared to $20.00 paid now per Mcf – 48% less that could be realized almost immediately and even more when compared to the increases coming with KWA”, the email read.

The state investigation aims to determine “whether any MI laws were violated in the process that created a major public health crisis for Flint residents”. Also Tuesday, the EPA said teams are preparing to collect samples to confirm that lead is being removed by water filters. “A lot of people are lacking transportation or they don’t have citizenship or they don’t have IDs that don’t matter at this point in time they need water so we want to make sure that anybody who is in need of water get that water”. “This is how far we have sunk; you can’t go any lower”. “That’s our commitment, is to put together a methodical, defensible and reasonable or rational plan”.

Wal-mart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo will donate a year’s worth of bottled water to kids of Flint, Mich., the companies announced on Tuesday, joining a growing list of corporate, celebrity, and grassroots efforts to provide safe drinking water after the city’s attempt at cost-saving exposed thousands of residents to lead poisoning.

National NAACP President and Chief Executive Cornell Brooks is expected to meet with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to discuss the crisis in Flint sparked by lead-tainted water. The Legislature is expected to direct $28 million in additional funding toward Flint on Thursday. A spending bill pending in the state Senate includes $3 million to help the city with unpaid water bills.

The suit is filed by the Concerned Pastors for Social Action, Flint resident and water activist Melissa Mays, the Michigan ACLU and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. “I’m asking for a staircase”. That caused lead to leech into the water for a year and a half and contributed to the spike in child lead exposure before state and officials fully acknowledged the problem in early October. The governor has repeatedly blamed state Department of Environmental Quality employees for failing to require Flint to add anti-corrosion chemicals that would have prevented lead from leaching from old pipes into the water supply. “We are committed to supporting the communities where we operate, and our collective action today will allow Flint school children and their parents to focus on their education rather than where they can find clean water”.

Weaver said at a news conference Wednesday that Marc Edwards will oversee all water testing done by the state and federal governments. “It’s about getting the facts out there”.

High lead levels have been detected in Flint’s water since it switched from Detroit’s system and began drawing from the Flint River.