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The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan was contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria. [2] In April 2014, during a financial crisis, state-appointed emergency manager Darnell Earley changed Flint's water source from the Detroit Water and ...
Trump was president in 2017, when thousands of Flint residents brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and in 2018, when a scathing ...
10 years after Flint’s lead water crisis began, a lack of urgency stalls ‘proper justice’. Maggie Vespa and Samira Puskar and Erik Ortiz. Updated April 24, 2024 at 1:56 PM. FLINT, Mich ...
e. Environmental racism is a form of institutional racism, in which people of colour bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harms, such as pollution from hazardous waste disposal and the effects of natural disasters. [1] [2] [3] Environmental racism exposes Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and ...
Amariyanna Copeny. President Barack Obama hugs Mari Copeny, 8, backstage at Northwestern High School in Flint, Michigan, May 4, 2016. Amariyanna " Mari " Copeny (born July 6, 2007), also known as Little Miss Flint, is an African-American youth activist from Flint, Michigan. She is best known for raising awareness about the Flint water crisis ...
Sima Gutierrez collects water samples from residents' homes and takes them to the Flint Community Water Lab, where more than 60 high school and college interns have provided free testing for ...
PEN American Center James C. Goodall Freedom of Expression Award (2016) Mona Hanna (born 9 December 1976) [1][2][3], formerly known as Mona Hanna-Attisha[4], is a pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint water crisis. She is the author of the 2018 book What the Eyes Don't See, which The New York Times ...
Ten years ago, the life of every Flint resident took a perilous turn when the city, under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, began using the Flint River as its municipal water source.