Flint water crisis

Michigan’s attorney general has dropped all pending criminal charges related to the Flint water contamination crisis, opting to restart the investigation. No official has been held accountable for the scandal to date.

Activists are concerned that Veolia, the company linked with the Flint, Michigan water crisis, is on the shortlist to manage two-thirds of water system in Lagos, Nigeria, where many children die from water-borne diseases.

After his offer of a ‘kid-size’ submarine to Thai cave rescuers was berated as “impractical,” Elon Musk is taking on the Flint water crisis, saying there’s “no kidding” in his promise to fix the lead contamination problem there.

Reading skills in Flint, Michigan are plummeting as the city continues to feel the effects of lead poisoning four years after the water crisis began.

A new bill proposed in the House of Representatives seeks to allocate $150 million – a 1,000 percent increase – to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund nationwide lead poisoning prevention, detection and treatment.

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.