“We can’t forget that we have lead pipes and challenges in other places in addition to Flint, and it’s time to act on that”. “The decision to delay the release of critical lead test information is a decision that children and families in Flint will have to live with for the rest of their lives”. “I submit to you that we are not disposable people”, Weaver said. After that city’s state-appointed emergency manager switched its source of drinking water, residents ended up drinking and cooking with water contaminated by extraordinarily high levels of lead.
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Hillary Clinton has spent the past month highlighting the Flint water crisis in television interviews and presidential debates. Corrosive compounds in Flint River water resulted in lead from the city’s pipes to leak into the water supply.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday proposed a $54.9 billion budget for the fiscal year set to begin in October, not including supplemental needs he detailed for the current fiscal year.
Flint is under a state of emergency because of lead-tainted water. “The Governor’s Office unequivocally denies allegations published online by MLive on Wednesday that Snyder ordered the Department of Environmental Quality to withhold results of testing in the schools”. “We know 5,000 lead service lines, we have 25,000 that are not, we have 25,000 that are unknown”. “And we need it now because we’re two years too late”.
The amendment, sponsored by Dan Kildee (D-Mich.), a representative and resident of Flint, is the first piece of legislation to address the ongoing Flint water crisis and to prevent similar crises from occurring. Donovan “likes the direction” of the bill “but has some suggestions” on how it could be improved, Kildee said.
“It’s very obvious this is a contrived explanation after the fact and it makes no sense”, Edwards said. “And many of those officials did not even seem to be effectively communicating and sharing data among themselves”. For many households already using filters, they now must boil the water says Newser. But she says, there’s not much he could say in the budget proposal that would satisfy her. “What would really satisfy me is if Governor Snyder resigned”, she said.
“Essentially, it’s $37 million for water infrastructure, $15 million for food and nutrition”.
Flood’s team of nine investigators will work independently of a separate FBI team also looking into who’s to blame for the water crisis and whether or not federal laws were broken.
Staff with the state’s Bureau of Services for Blind Persons contacted its almost 40 clients living in Flint by home visit or phone.
“If I knew something bad was going on… and I just want to turn my blind eye, that could be a problem”, said Flood, a former Wayne County assistant prosecutor who spoke at a news conference with the Republican attorney general and investigators.
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The bureau’s Director Edward Rodgers says in a statement that officials “will continue to provide assistance to any Flint resident who is blind or visually impaired”. They’re upset with how the governor handled the Flint Water Crisis. “All lead pipes need to be replaced”. “It was determined that having more data was advisable prior to the commitment of a specific optimization method”. He says most chemicals used for that are phosphate-based, which can encourage bacteria.
