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Expert panel has 1st meeting on Flint's lead-tainted water
2016-01-28 05:56:43| Automakers - Topix.net
An archway on a planter straddles the Flint River in downtown Flint, Mich., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. From its founding, Flint's fortunes essentially were entwined with a single industry.
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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TRAFFIC ADVISORY 01/10/16: Swan Island Exit at Going Street (Southbound) Shut Down for Water Main Repairs
2016-01-27 19:30:50| PortlandOnline
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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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Kent County to begin testing water for lead, copper, arsenic
2016-01-27 14:37:15| Waste Management - Topix.net
The health department in Kent County plans to begin testing its water supply for lead, copper and arsenic next month.
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