Michigan set to OK $28M more to address Flint water crisis

From its founding, Flint’s fortunes essentially were entwined with a single industry.

Snyder was invited to the town hall meeting, but was not there.

Hicks says, if you sign up for recycling and have too many water bottles to fit in your bin, you can make your own extra bin. In an interview on “Uprising”, he told me that “when we made our water results public, we were surprised and shocked to see [the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality] downplaying the effects of lead in water, ridiculing the results that all of us had released, and even questioning the results of a local Flint pediatrician”.

A civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, Marc Edwards, was contacted to research further into the water crisis in Flint. “I don’t know how they explain it if they don’t support an amendment to protect children from water that is deadly or poisonous”, he said. Not long after the city switched from Lake Huron to the Flint River as its main water supply, residents began to complain about the taste and smell of the water; they also began to experience troubling health problems.

The federal Safe Drinking Water Act requires water systems and state regulators to monitor lead levels coming out of people’s faucets, and if 10 percent of samples have more than 15 parts per billion of lead, then the state has to evaluate its corrosion controls. She was referring to the team of volunteers that arrived previous year in Flint to conduct independent testing of the city’s lead-to-water ratios.

“The next time someone from the other party stands in front of this mic and starts railing against government regulation, I hope you will raise two words to them: Flint, Michigan”, Durbin said.

For weeks, city and state officials have traded barbs over who is ultimately to blame for the corrosive water that was pumped from the Flint River into the city’s homes.

That state of emergency lasts for 28 days.

Majority Republicans favor the law.

“I’m always looking for something, watching them all the time”, she said.

What happened in Flint starting in 2013 needlessly risked the health of thousands of people who deserve better, exposing anyone who drank tap water to poisonous lead that never should have been there.

The short-term goal is to recoat the pipes, he said. Undocumented immigrants in Flint are not only struggling to get the free bottled water and filters that are being distributed, they aren’t being tested properly for lead poisoning and other conditions they may have due to their prolonged exposure to the toxic water. “Now, we’re trying to understand all the consequences, and I don’t think we have yet quite grasped everything that’s going to come out of this problem”.

Flint’s plight has attracted plenty of celebrity donors as well: Cher and Icelandic Water are contributing more than 181,000 bottles of water to help alleviate what she calls a “tragedy of staggering proportions”. The bill also includes $5 million to aid the city in covering the loss of revenue from unpaid water bills and the cost of new water system infrastructure.

Only a week ago did the Federal Emergency Management Agency answer to a call of help from Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder. Oxfam says that “growing economic inequality is bad for us all – it undermines growth and social cohesion.the consequences for the world’s poorest people are particularly severe”.

Members will serve three-year terms expiring December 31, 2018.

Rick Snyder said he has failed Flint residents but pledged to take new steps to fix the city’s drinking water crisis, starting with committing millions in state funding.

One difficulty officials are facing, Snyder said, is that lead might no longer show up in a blood test after a month has passed. The city responded by calling for proposals to privatize its water supply.

“Just to be clear: all 102K residents of Flint have been exposed to toxic water, all of Flint’s kids have ingested lead, & 10 ppl have died”, Moore tweeted on another occasion.

The lawsuit does not seek monetary damages, the ACLU of MI said in a statement.

This item has been corrected to reflect the proper name of the Natural Resources Defense Council.