MI governor appoints Flint whistleblowers to remedy water crisis

Members will serve three-year terms expiring December 31, 2018. “Because they could be affected”.

“I appreciate the federal government stepping up, but this does not replace the state stepping up and giving the funds for our residents to fix this issue”, Weaver said. Durbin offered few details, but said the measure would “protect children from water that is deadly or poisonous”. “But as a practice now, we should be working on that, very clearly”.

Genesee County Volunteer Militia members and protesters gather for a rally outside of Flint City Hall on Sunday Jan. 24, 2016, over the city’s ongoing water crisis. However, he said that is a long-term project and declined to comment on the lawsuit.

It won’t be in time for Snyder’s budget presentation, but “the governor will be making more announcements about investments for Flint when he releases the budget”, Weiss said Monday.

Calls for Snyder’s resignation have been growing as criticism mounts over the government’s handling of the crisis.

Moore said the governor should be arrested for his role in the Flint water crisis.

Donations of bottled water are being collected at the Blackmon Administration Building on the Tougaloo campus for shipment to Flint in the coming weeks.

Water treatment plants across the country are required to closely monitor lead levels in tap water and use chemicals to reduce acidity and coat pipes to prevent corrosion.

Snyder has blamed the situation on incompetent bureaucrats, specifically citing “a handful of quote-unquote experts that were career civil servant people that made bad decisions”.

The Safe Drinking Water Act, established in 1974, requires the Environmental Protection Agency to create minimum standards for safe tap water.

Michigan’s Republican attorney general has named a former prosecutor to spearhead an investigation into the process that left Flint’s drinking water tainted with lead. The Joint Information Center, set up to handle the Flint response, announced late Tuesday a group of businesses and community organizations is organizing a free recycling program for the water bottles with drop-offs at several locations.

In the meantime, Flint hired a Virginia Tech professor who helped expose the lead problem despite initial skepticism from state regulators to now oversee water testing.

But some groups aren’t waiting for the findings of a committee. “We’ll properly answer any lawsuit filed, but let’s care of the people of Flint”.

The state, which failed to ensure that proper corrosion controls were added to Flint water after the city switch to a local river source in April of 2014, has been ramping up relief efforts since confirming elevated lead levels on October 1. As a result, lead leached from pipes, joints and fixtures, contaminating the drinking water for an unknown number of Flint households.

The NAACP is trying to help with a 15-point-plan on how the city could deal with this water crisis.

The plaintiffs are the Natural Resources Defense Council, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Concerned Pastors for Social Action and resident Melissa Mays.