Flint water crisis
- ‘Crisis mode’: Flint kids’ reading level falls 75% since lead contamination
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.US News - Get the lead out: Federal bill would test for lead in children, provide treatment
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.US News - 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.US News - 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.US News - 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.US News
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