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Pure Michigan malfeasance in Flint: Darcy cartoon
2016-01-31 15:17:21| Waste Management - Topix.net
Not a single lead-contaminated water pipe in Flint,Michigan has been repaired or replaced. Neither has Governor Rick Snyder, whose administrators created the crises.
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Bottled Water From Western New York Arrives in Flint
2016-01-30 13:35:29| Telecom - Topix.net
After putting out the call last week, True Bethel Baptist Church collected bottled water from people in Western New York as well as other churches in New York and Ohio. "We thought we would have a truckload that we could handle in our church truck but Buffalo, like it always does, came through so big that we needed really big, 18 wheelers," said Pastor Darius Pridgen.
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'Flint is the tip of the iceberg': Other Michigan cities may be facing potential lead crises
2016-01-29 07:38:20| Waste Management - Topix.net
WTF? A group of armed right-wing extremists occupy a federal building-and they don't even get charged with trespass? As state and local officials in Michigan struggle to address the lead contamination in Flint, new data show that other municipalities and private water systems in Michigan may be headed down the same path. MLive reports : Michigan Department of Environmental Quality records show that six private water supplies in Michigan and two municipalities - not including Flint - meet or exceed the federal limit on lead and copper in water tested at the customer tap.
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Local efforts increase to send 1,000 cases of water to Flint, Michigan
2016-01-27 23:46:18| Agriculture - Topix.net
"We are participating with the other residents in Decatur to do whatever we can in a short amount of time and I know we are going to blow them away with the amount of donations they will receive." "A lot of people look at it as 'that's Flint, Michigan, we are in Decatur Illinois,' but we look at it as another place needing some assistance and if we can offer that assistance we are definitely going to."
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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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