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.
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Hanna-Attisha said her testing found the number of Flint children with elevated blood-lead levels doubled from a period before the city switched its water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River in April 2014.
The governor said every school in MI needs to be tested for lead in the water, and it’s time to adopt a statewide infrastructure strategy.
“I’m asking right now, President Obama come to Flint”. Schuette, whose office is both investigating the crisis and representing Snyder in the civil cases, refused on Tuesday to discuss the subpoena and its potential impact to the state’s investigation, citing an “ironclad” wall between the investigation and civil lawsuits he says his office has established.
MLive is reporting that Gov. Snyder ordered the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to withhold lead test results until they figured out how to best tell the public of the dangers.
Rick Snyder is interviewed after visited a church that’s distributing water and filters to its predominantly Latino parishioners in Flint, Mich. Snyder will propose spending $195 million more to address Flint’s water crisis and another $165 million updating infrastructure across the state in response to lead contamination overwhelming the city. “I have no idea”, said Becerra, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
State regulators failed to ensure that water was properly treated, and lead from aging pipes leached into the water supply.
Todd Flood, who was appointed as special counsel by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month because Schuette’s office is defending the state in civil lawsuits, said manslaughter charges could be on the table if government officials were grossly negligent in their handling of the city’s water change and the aftermath.
Democrats have complained that GOP leaders in Congress were reluctant to call Snyder to testify, despite multiple requests by Democrats to invite him.
But Edwards said the Flint River is already high in phosphorus and adding more wouldn’t have had any effect on bacteria.
No child was ever at risk during the testing period, as the district had issued advisories telling students and staff not to drink water in the schools on September 25. She said the US Environmental Protection Agency’s lead and copper regulations for drinking water were outdated and underfunded.
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“Chelsea runs the Clinton Foundation and she’s well-connected so I’m hoping that she shares her story with her well-funded friends and gets us the research we need because we know that government will not cover everything”, Hanna-Attisha said. “Why don’t people just step up to the plate, look at what’s been said, and then say, ‘you know what, an error’s been made and we’re going to correct the error and go forward.’ You cannot get away from the fact of what’s been said what’s been documented You can deny it today and own up to it later”.
