Black People Politics : Flint Water Crisis and Gov. Snyder - Michigan - Taps Restored

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Snyder's legal tab with criminal defense firm hits $3.5M

LANSING — Gov. Rick Snyder has notified the State Administrative Board that his taxpayer-funded legal fees with a criminal defense firm, for services related to the Flint drinking water crisis, will increase by another $1.5 million, to a cap of $3.5 million ...

http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...2/21/snyders-legal-bill-flint-water/95708242/

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Gov. Rick Snyder's outside legal bills related to the Flint drinking water crisis are approaching $5 million.(Photo: Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press)


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After 1,000 days, Flint is still without clean drinking water

According to both both government officials and environmental researchers, there has been a steady decline in the overall levels of lead and other bacteria in Flint’s drinking water since it returned to Detroit’s system in October 2015. Still, the immense damage caused by pumping improperly treated river water through the city’s aged lead pipes is far from fixed ...


https://www.yahoo.com/news/after-10...l-without-clean-drinking-water-222111445.html

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Demonstrators protest over the contaminated water crisis outside of the venue where the Democratic U.S. presidential candidates’ debate was being held in Flint, Mich., on March 6, 2016. (Photo: Rebecca Cook/Reuters)

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Kiki Phillips, outside her home in Flint, Mich., on Jan. 25, 2016, had recently received notice that her house would be put into foreclosure due to her inability to pay her accumulating water bills. (Caitlin Dickson/Yahoo News)

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Caitlin Dickson
Breaking News Reporter



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7 cities that prove America’s problem with contaminated water is larger than Flint

While the national spotlight on the water crisis in Flint, Mich has exposed failure within the U.S. public water system, it’s not the only city in America facing environmental injustice.

Water systems in cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia and Milwaukee are amongst more than 5,000 that are violating lead regulations ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-cities...-231021894.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_02


7 cities that prove America’s problem with contaminated water is larger than Flint




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