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Flint, Michigan: Did race and poverty factor into water crisis?
2016-01-27 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, has so outraged community advocates that they now pose a powerful question: Was the city neglected because it is mostly black and about 40% poor? Several advocates say yes. They charge that Flint residents are victims of "environmental racism" -- that is, race and poverty factored into how Flint wasn't adequately protected and how its water became contaminated with lead, making the tap water undrinkable. Flint water crisis: AG seeks to...
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