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The Environmental Protection Agency’s lethargic response to the Flint water crisis makes the agency look like an accomplice after a crime – the poisoning of the city’s water system and ...
More than five years after the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, began, many residents still don’t know if they can trust the water coming out of their taps. In April 2018, then-Gov. Rick Snyder ...
The EPA's Region 5 did not implement management controls that could have facilitated more informed and proactive decision-making when Flint and the MDEQ did not properly implement the Lead and ...
The Environmental Protection Agency must strengthen its oversight of state drinking water programs to avoid a repeat of what happened in Flint, Mich., an agency watchdog said in a report Thursday.
Even the EPA's Miguel Del Toral, widely praised as a hero for helping to force agency action in Flint, is shown through the e-mails in a more nuanced light.
McCarthy accepted the resignation, the EPA said in an e-mail, "given Susan’s strong interest in ensuring that EPA Region 5’s focus remains solely on the restoration of Flint’s drinking water." ...
A top EPA official resigned Thursday over the handling of the ongoing water contamination crisis in Flint, Mich. The role of the EPA and whether the federal agency should have done more has been a ...
A report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General strongly criticizes the local, state and federal government’s response to the Flint water crisis in 2015 and ...
FLINT, MI -- New EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the McKenzie Patrice Croom Flint Community Water Testing Lab in one of his first community visits after being appointed by President Joe Biden.
Empowering communities nationwide with a free, federally aligned water infrastructure tool designed to accelerate equitable ...
Last week, an EPA spokesperson reaffirmed that to FRONTLINE, saying that the drinking water “currently meets all health-based standards.” But Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, has dismissed such ...