Former chief of Michigan’s Dept. of Environmental Quality’s Water Unit fired
“Putting the well-being of Michiganders first needs to be the top priority for all state employees”, Gov. Snyder stated in the Friday news release.
“As an HBCU I believe we should be looking out for others in the black community”.
Failing to over power the president, Flint’s water crisis, and pleading the fifth are all part of this week’s Capitol Edge.
According to CNN, the crisis in Flint began in 2014 after a state-appointed emergency manager made the decision to switch the city’s water supply from the Detroit River to the Flint River to save money. “In other words, millions of consumers who are now being told that their water is safe, are drinking and cooking with water that routinely dispenses high concentrations of lead”, he added.
The FBI is now getting involved in the man-made water disaster in Flint, Michigan.
“EPA will carefully evaluate these recommendations, national experience in implementing the rule, and the experience in Flint to develop a proposed revision to the rule”, she said, referring to the advisory council’s list. Charity:Water works to help ensure that every person has access to clean drinking water.
Friday Snyder attended a closed door meeting with local officials in Flint and avoided the media.
Three Michigan Democratic lawmakers – Sens.
The declaration also only covers a period going back to October 1st, 2015, when the state confirmed the presence of lead in Flint’s drinking water.
Flint may have in recent months become synonymous with lead contamination in America, but it is by no means the only-or the most extreme -example of how the toxic element can make its way into our bodies.
The idea was hatched by Lisa Davis after seeing the news of Flint’s water crises on television. They also plan to offer some kind of relief for citizens in Flint. They were trying to do something good, Edwards says, but the unintended result was a massive lead contamination event – the worst in modern United States history.
“Unlike Flint, Michigan, who utilized surface water from the Flint River, the county utilizes wells from underground aquifers including the fresh Surficial Aquifer and brackish Floridan Aquifer”, she wrote.
“If we’re finding concerning and risky levels now, God knows what the lead levels really were before”, said Scott Smith, chief technology officer for Water Defense, who collected the samples from the Brown home.