Flint water crisis
- Flint bank boss resigns after n-word rant about water crisis
A bank sales manager in Flint, Michigan has resigned after a recording emerged of him using a racial slur while blaming the city’s water problems on African-Americans.Viral - 6 arrested at contentious Flint water town hall meeting
Six were arrested at a heavily policed Flint, Michigan, public town hall meeting that was convened at a church to address the mayor's decision to remain connected with a Detroit-area water system.America - Flint to get new pipes after $87 million settlement
A judge has approved a deal between the state of Michigan, the city of Flint, several Flint-based pastors, and the American Civil Liberties Union, has resulted in the state paying $87 million to replace lead-tainted pipelines with galvanized steel pipes.America - Ex-Michigan health official gets probation over Flint’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak
A Michigan health official has been sentenced to a year’s probation for not telling the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water contamination scandal. Nearly 100 people fell ill during the outbreak and twelve people died.America - 1,000 days of toxic drinking water in Flint
It has been over 1,000 days since Flint, Michigan switched its drinking water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, resulting in a public health crisis that has yet to be adequately addressed, residents and experts say.America - 4 more face criminal charges in Flint water poisoning scandal
Michigan’s attorney general has filed charges against four more people involved in the decisions that led to the Flint water crisis, including felony counts with multiple 20-year sentences, citing a fixation on finances and “numbers over people.”America
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