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The EPA "battled Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality behind the scenes for at least six months over whether Flint needed to use chemical treatments to keep lead lines and plumbing connections from leaching into drinking water" and "did not publicize its concern that Flint residents' health was jeopardized by the state's insistence ...
In that time, Michigan started and then stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; criminal charges were brought and then dismissed against several officials for deaths suspected of ...
FLINT — For the first time since the water crisis began in 2014, a presidential campaign event was held in Flint Tuesday with no mention of the lead poisoning of the city's drinking water supply
The state of Michigan has committed to finally remove the toxic lead pipes remaining at hundreds of homes in Flint, a lingering threat exposed earlier this year by Scripps News.
The City of Flint’s water quality is in compliance with all state and federal regulations.” We'll be following this story. Email Carrie.Cochran@Scripps.com with questions or tips.
To implement the 2011 Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act, EPA published a final rule on September 1, 2020. [13] In response to the Flint, Michigan water crisis (2014), EPA published a final rule on January 15, 2021 addressing testing, pipe replacement and related issues. The rule mandates additional requirements for sampling tap water ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Michigan designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Now the agency is aiming to further reduce lead levels in drinking water and tighten a rule that failed to prevent recent drinking water crises in cities like Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New ...